Florida Sentinel Bulletin

In 2006, Bow Wow, whose actual name is Shad Gregory Moss, owed a Florida tax lien of $91,105.61, which is still unpaid. A new lien was filed in Georgia in 2008 to the tune of $15,279.62.  Finally, in 2010, a third lien was added to Bow Wow’s debt, totaling $19,700.91. Reportedly, the spend thrift entertainer […]

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Last week, the Barack Obama re-election campaign named a 31-year-old former field director for the NAACP to be African-American Vote Director for the campaign’s Operation Vote outreach effort. Stefanie Brown, formerly the national field director for the NAACP in Baltimore, will direct the campaign’s Black voter outreach efforts. Operation Vote is the campaign’s national drive […]

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MIAMI, FL – Marsee Strong and Edward Bailey, the parents of a 9-year-old boy who was found naked, emaciated, beaten, and dazed as he wandered the streets of his North Miami Beach neighborhood, were taken into custody on aggravated abuse and child neglect charges. The unidentified child, who was compared to a concentration camp Auschwitz […]

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ATLANTA, GA – Morehouse College has announced that its president of five years, Dr. Robert M. Franklin, will step down from his position at the end of the 2012 academic year. During a sabbatical from Morehouse, Franklin will serve as Scholar in Residence at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Institute. Upon his return, he […]

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PHOENIX – Peoria, Ariz., police officer, Sgt. Pat Shearer, posted a picture of a group of teenagers holding guns, with one of them holding an Obama Hope T-shirt that appears to be full of bullet holes. The picture also appeared on the page of a high school student and is being investigated by the secret […]

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A 17-year-old African-American teen was beaten during a hate crime in Chicago in late December 2011, area police are now reporting. The victim, Joshua Merritt, a senior at Brother Rice High School, was attacked by three white teenage boys who attend the same institution. The assault was allegedly motivated by the Black male starting a […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Last Friday, Hillsborough County Circuit Court officials decided notorious murder suspect, Dontae Morris will be tried first for the robbery and murder of a man outside a Tampa nightclub. The club shooting is one of five murder cases filed against Morris. According to police, during the early morning […]

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BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor As a young child in elementary school, one Tampa native knew that he wanted to be a newscaster. Brent Solomon pursued his dream and made it a reality. However, Solomon said people would often ask when he would work in the local market. For those inquisitive minds, Solomon […]

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BY JOANNA TOKLEY Special To The Sentinel During the field hearing Friday in Tampa on Florida’s changes to election laws held by Democratic Senators Bill Nelson (Florida) and Dick Durbin (Illinois), voters heard testimony by two Florida elections supervisors that convinced the hearing panel and onlookers that there was little to no voter fraud during […]

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