Florida Sentinel Bulletin

BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Nearly 14 years ago, Mrs. Cherylene Levy had a vision of owning a semi-professional football team. She became the owner of the Tampa Bay Bulldogs with the support and assistance of her husband, the late Eddie Levy, Sr. Under the guidance of her husband, a few years after […]

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LOS ANGELES — Terrence Howard was ordered Tuesday to stay 100 yards (90 meters) away from his estranged wife after she claimed the Oscar-nominated actor repeatedly threatened and hit her during their marriage. The star denies the allegations. Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon granted the stay-away order sought by Michelle Howard after she filed a […]

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The Barbadian pop-superstar Rihanna was put a 24-hour health watch by her concerned handlers. Mercury Records execs grounded the 23-year-old singer after she apparently had an episode and almost cancelled a tour date in Dublin, Ireland. Basically, since Ri Ri has been on tour all year to supplement the lackluster sales of her latest project […]

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DMX has always walked with the people and showed where his heart really really is after a concert in Texas. X was doing a show in San Antonio last Thursday, when a fan asked if he would visit the troops at nearby Fort Sam Houston. X said yes … and actually kept his word, showing […]

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TRENTON, N.J. — Soul singer Howard Tate has died in his New Jersey apartment a decade after a career resurrection that followed years of tragedy and obscurity. A spokesman for the Burlington County medical examiner says Tate was 72 when he died Friday in Burlington City. Tate was born in Macon, Ga., and grew up […]

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A feud has erupted within the first family of reggae, with the widow and nine children of Bob Marley suing his half brother to stop use of the Marley name to promote an annual Miami music festival and profit from other businesses in his native Jamaica. The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court contends the […]

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Victoria Pannell, 12, the National Action Network’s Northeast Regional Director of the Youth, led a march and rally in a Harlem neighborhood where gang, drug, and gun activity is rampant. Dozens of Harlemites congregated Friday at Wright Brothers Playground, a small park that has a reputation of being unsafe for kids, to denounce the illicit […]

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WASHINGTON — The NAACP says it is gathering information on the effect of new state laws that tightened rules on voting in order to make its case to the Justice Department that the laws are discriminatory. The civil rights organization argues in a report released Monday that the laws amount to a coordinated, comprehensive assault […]

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Emanyea Lockett, 9, was suspended for calling a teacher “cute,” his mother says. After a substitute teacher overheard 9-year-old Emanyea tell another student a teacher was ‘cute,’ school officials put him on two-day suspension for sexual harassment. The school’s code of conduct doesn’t list sexual harassment, but does mention possession of any gun, rifle, pistol, […]

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