FAMU has done it again! For the second year in a row, the HBCU located in Tallahassee, Florida has been named a Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leader by The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) made the announcement on Monday […]
A Florida appeals court heard the case of a man who was jailed for 30 days in 2019 after writing a letter to the judge who dismissed a civil rights lawsuit he filed against the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. 41-year-old Derrick Jenkins spent a month at Palm Beach County Jail after writing a letter slamming […]
A Florida Dunkin’ Donuts employee is now facing an aggravated manslaughter charge after he punched a man for repeatedly calling him a racial slur. The 77-year-old would later died. Corey Pujols, 27, was initially arrested on a charge of battery on a person older than 65 in connection with the May 5 incident and was […]
A Florida District of Appeal voted unanimously last week to uphold the conviction of a former Palm Beach police officer who fatally shot a Black driver who was pulled over after his car stalled on the interstate. Nouman Raja’s attorneys argued that his 2019 convictions for manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder for the 2015 killing […]
A Florida woman has been arrested and charged late last month after she allegedly went on a racial tirade at a fast-food restaurant over the thickness of her tomato according to Villages News. Judith Ann Black has been charged with a felony after she threw a Whopper at a Black Burger King employee on Friday, […]
Police have launched an investigation after a video showed a school principal hitting a 6-year-old student with a wooden paddle. The student’s mother recorded the incident on her phone last month in Clewiston, Florida. The mother, who doesn’t speak English she didn’t give consent for the child to be paddled. The mother, who does not […]
An elementary school principal in Florida is being investigated by authorities for paddling a 6-year-old student after a video from the child’s mother’s circulated online. Melissa Carter, head of Central Elementary School in Hendry County, bent the child over and proceeded to hit the girl with a paddle in front of her mom, WINK News […]
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A former Florida deputy accused of planting drugs on people during traffic stops while being recorded by his body camera is set to go to trial next month. The former Jackson County deputy Zachary Wester career in law enforcement came to an end in 2018 after the allegations came to light. Wester was indicted on […]
3-year-old Elijah LaFrance was fatally shot at his birthday party in Golden Glades, Florida. Miami-Dade Police says the toddler and an unidentified 21-year-old woman were shot at the party. The woman is expected to survive her injuries. The shooting took place around 8 p.m. Saturday when a neighbor reported hearing 20 – 30 gunshots outside the […]