Florida Sentinel Bulletin

On Tuesday, March 27th (today) Tampa City Councilman Frank Reddick will host a rally for a slain teenager. The rally will take place at the 34th Street Church of God, 3000 N. 34th Street, beginning at 6 p.m. Cedric McCray, Administrative Assistant for Councilman Reddick stated that some members of Trayvon Martin’s family plan to […]

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Plies pens a tribute to Trayvon Martin with this new song “We Are Trayvon,” which will be available on iTunes, with proceeds going to the fallen teenager’s family.

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Eckerd Youth Alternatives (EYA) and the University Area Community Development Center, 14013 N. 22nd Street, will host the second Community-Based Child Welfare Community Forum. The forum will take place at 6:30 p.m., and will target families residing in 33612 and 33613 zip codes. This is the second of […]

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NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She’s reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album. In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, who helped engineer her comeback in the 1980s, would be working […]

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Tampa Police were called to Baker’s Mini Market, 2504 North Armenia Avenue, on report of a shooting Monday afternoon. Police spokesperson, Laura McElroy, said a man walked into the store at 10:45 and asked for change. The same man returned 30 minutes later, allegedly armed with a handgun, and tried to rob the store. McElroy […]

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LOS ANGELES — “The Hunger Games” has filled fan appetites with a $155 million opening weekend that puts it near the top of the domestic record book. The huge haul marks the third-best debut ever in terms of revenue, behind the $169.2 million opening for last year’s “Harry Potter” finale and the $158.4 million opening […]

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Crooner Usher Raymond is all set to play boxing legend, Sugar Ray Leonard in a forthcoming biopic about the life of Panamanian champion fighter, Roberto Durán. The film, ‘Hands of Stone,’ will also feature actors Robert DeNiro and Gael Bernal, reports the BBC. Usher, who was spotted in London recently, has been putting the finishing […]

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WASHINGTON  — The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply went before the Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation’s social safety net in more than four decades. Two years and three days after President […]

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Dekalb County police confirmed that two private security guards shot and killed Ervin Jefferson Saturday night after responding to a disturbance outside of his home. They were supposed to be securing the premises of an apartment complex near the family’s home. The teen was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The […]

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