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It seems like Drake’s Assassination Vacation Tour is the place to be, not just for the music, but for the guests and special announcements. During the last night of his seven-day residency in London at the O2 Arena, Drake brought out J. Cole, and said that they’ve been working on new music together. “I can’t wait to…

POTTER ELEMENTARY GETS NEW PLAYGROUNDS   BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor   Last week, a new playground was created at Potter Elementary School. The funding was taken from the half-cent Education Referendum, making the school the first in the district to benefit Education Referendum. The work on the playground began last Friday with…

CARLTON BURGESS …Founder   MAURICE ALLEN …Concert Artist   PHILLIP AND FIONA WILLIAMS …Concert Artists   REV. DR. BRAXTON D. SHELLEY …Guest Conference Musician   Carlton Burgess, Founder, and Cheryl Young, Academic Dean, of the Hymn Lovers Conference, announce that they are excited to present a planned time of refreshing, restoration, and fun for music ministry leaders….

JANICE LONDON …President From left to right are: Charmette Joyce T. Austin, Event Chairman; Sylvia Myrick, Irene Johnson, Rugenia Meeks, and Charmette Betty Kinsey.  Charmettes Delores (Dee) Williams and Ruby French worked closely with the committee. Charmette Andreatha Freeman Nurse was in attendance. In celebration of March being National Women History Month, the Hillsborough County…

LINDSEY HARDING   Lindsey with 76ers players.                     Lindsey Harding, the daughter of Tampa native Lillian Andrews and Michael Harding of Houston, Texas, and the granddaughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. W. W. ‘Billy’Andrews, has reached another milestone.                   Lindsey, who was recently inducted into the Duke University Hall of Fame, has become a historic addition to the Philadelphia…

            Panelists at the University Area Community Development Corporation’s summit on attainable housing, from left to right, Sarah Combs, Craig Vanderlaan, Vince Jackson, Mickey Jacobs, Davida Franklin.    BY KENYA WOODARD Sentinel Staff Writer                   The solutions for attainable housing could come in the form of modular homes that sit on concrete foundations and have…

Contestants for the Mr. and Miss Middleton Pageant are: Ivory Cromartie, Tico Allen Chayla Austin, and Roshard Jackson. (All Photographs by BRUNSON)   CATEIRA MARSHALL …Contestant ANNECHRISTIE JOSEPH …Contestant   BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor               Mrs. Tameca Johnson gets joy out of making sure high school students have an enjoyable experience while learning….

MARIE ARLENE MYERS THORNTON …Miss Middleton High, 1956   BY FRED HEARNS     In 1872, George Schroeder Middleton was born in Charleston, South Carolina to William and Lucinda Middleton. In the 1890s, looking for a new life far from the Middleton Plantation in Charleston that he knew as a boy, he moved to Tampa. By the time…

Four-hour film explores the United States’ emergence from the Civil War and slavery, and the era’s thwarted vision for an interracial democracy that haunts the country more than 150 years later.    RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a new four-hour documentary executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., premieres Tuesdays, April 9, and…