Florida Sentinel Bulletin

BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Candi Taylor has always been thrilled watching young people involved with dance and step teams. She said she’s seen so many of them perform, it’s a shame they don’t compete. “That’s when I came up with the idea to create “Rep Yo School.” My plan was to give […]

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Former Belmont Heights Little League coach, Andrew James, passed away Monday, March 19th after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 77. Coach James was a 1954 graduate of Middleton High School, and went on to attend Florida A&M University. His wife, Jacquelyn, said her husband was a gifted athlete, even while attending Booker T. […]

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BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer With this country still at war, and with the issue of the massacre of the civilian families in Afghanistan, many military personnel are returning to this country with a variety of problems or needs. The Tampa Vet Center is there to help them with array of services. Jimmie […]

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WASHINGTON — Picking up the pace, President Barack Obama raised $45 million for his re-election bid in February, bringing his total to about $300 million for this election cycle, his campaign said Monday. Pres. Obama stepped up fundraising efforts during the month, collecting nearly twice as much as the $23 million per month average he […]

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A 5-year-old boy remained in critical condition Monday after police said his mother took a kitchen knife to his throat. Daphne Spurlock, 45, told Magnolia, Texas police she slashed her son’s throat because “he was infested with demons.” On Saturday night Spurlock stomped on her son’s head and chest before slitting his throat. The child’s […]

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A total of sixteen Black and Hispanic employees at the Coca-Cola soft drink company have filed a lawsuit claiming that they have been forced to work under conditions that can be categorized as being “a cesspool of racial discrimination.” The Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit which was filed against two of the company’s five production plants […]

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A Black ninth-grader in Fairfax Country, Virginia was reading a Langston Hughes poem in class when his teacher instructed him to read it blacker. As Jordan Shumate recalls the incident, the teacher didn’t hold back in punches in expressing her displeasure with how he was reading the poems. “She told me, ‘Blacker, Jordan — c’mon, […]

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Memphis Officer Dion Anthony was busy at work, but it was not defending the public.  Rather, Officer Anthony was allegedly having sex with an unnamed woman and his antics were broadcast over the police radio scanner. Investigators are still trying to determine which mic picked up on Anthony’s alleged sexual romp. The open radio transmission […]

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – The New Orleans Saints’ crush-for-cash bounty system already cost them head coach Sean Payton for all of next season and general manager Mickey Loomis for half of it, plus two second-round draft picks and a $500,000 fine. Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who oversaw and contributed money to the illegal […]

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