Florida Sentinel Bulletin

SAN FRANCISCO — Backers of affirmative action asked a federal appeals court Monday to overturn California’s 15-year-old ban on considering race in public college admissions, citing a steep drop in black, Latino and Native American students at the state’s elite campuses. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal heard arguments in […]

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GEORGIA — Seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera was sexually assaulted then beaten to death by maintenance man Ryan Brunn before being dumped in a trash compactor. Her mother, Joselinne Rivera is now suing the River Ridge at Canton apartment complex where her family lived because tenants were not aware of Brunn’s history of crimes against children. Rivera […]

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MANHATTAN — Joy White and Carl Tyson, parents of Carlina White, the infant stolen from Harlem Hospital when she was 19-days-old in 1987, sat in stunned disbelief as a Manhattan federal judge allowed kidnapper Ann Pettway (pictured), 51, to escape the mandatory 20-year minimum sentence after copping a 10-year plea deal, reports the New York […]

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have announced they have hired Jimmy Raye as Senior Offensive Assistant. With more than 30 years of experience in the NFL, Coach Raye has attained a wealth of knowledge that will be an invaluable resource to t he coaches and players of the Buccaneers. Raye’s coaching career has spanned 40 seasons, […]

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Former NFL player Christ Draft, 35, has been in the news a lot recently because of the tragic death of his wife, Lakeasha Monique Rutledge. Draft, who died from lung cancer on Dec. 27, just a month after the couple were married. Draft says his wife was not a smoker. She found out about the […]

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FORT WORTH, TX  — Authorities arrested 17 students at Texas Christian University on Wednesday as part of a six-month drug sting, an especially embarrassing blow to the school because it included four members of the high-profile football team. Arrest warrants painted a startling picture of the Horned Frogs, with a handful of players who allegedly […]

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LeBron James got into a verbal altercation with a heckler who brought up the rumor that former teammate, Delonte West had sex with LeBron’s mother during a game between the Miami Heat and the Washington Wizards. According to reports, security had to intervene during the altercation between James and the heckler, Bob Moore. Yahoo Sports […]

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Boxing great Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is making news for commentary unrelated to the sport he dominates. Thursday afternoon, Mayweather tweeted that New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin’s hype is due to his Chinese and Taiwanese heritage. The current WBC welterweight champion also said Black players put up similar numbers to Lin and do not receive […]

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Whitney Houston’s family announced that the late singer’s funeral will be a private event. Talk of a large scale farewell for Whitney Houston has changed. Plans were announced Tuesday for a much smaller farewell for the late singer. The same Newark, NJ church where Whitney Houston sang as a child will now be the scene […]

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