Tag: Florida

President derides Trump on infrastructure, amid fury over Florida elections bill

May 7, 2021
CORONAVIRUS-EEUU-VACUNAS (AP)The White House spoke out against Florida’s new elections bill, which was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday. Karine Jeanne-Pierre, a White House principal deputy press secretary, said the move was in the “wrong direction” and “built on a lie”.In other news, President Joe Biden gave a speech in Louisiana on

Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Republican Florida Lawyer For Voter Fraud | National News

December 7, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is investigating Bill Price, a Republican Florida attorney, for encouraging other Floridians to move to Georgia and vote in the upcoming U.S. Senate runoff.Price appeared in a Facebook Live video on Nov. 7 telling fellow Republicans at a meeting that he was moving in with his brother in Georgia

Florida woman charged with abandoning sick baby on doorstep

November 20, 2020
A Florida woman allegedly abandoned her sick 3-month-old son on the doorstep of a stranger’s home over the weekend, authorities said. Melissa Kelley, 33, is accused of dropping off her baby in his car seat on Patricia Tillman’s porch Sunday night saying she couldn’t care for the infant any longer, the Dayton Beach News-Journal reported.

Florida cops release video of fatal police shooting of 2 black teens

November 19, 2020
Florida authorities released dashcam video Tuesday of a police-involved shooting that killed two black teens after outraged family and community members demanded answers from authorities over the shooting. Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies Jafet Santiago-Miranda and Carson Hendren were investigating a possible stolen vehicle in the Cocoa area when they encountered 16-year-old Angelo Crooms and 18-year-old

Anti-government Florida man shot dead by fellow ‘sovereign citizen’

November 18, 2020
An anti-government ideologue in Florida who professed to be a “sovereign citizen” was allegedly gunned down by a woman on Monday who was also a member of the movement, a report said. The suspected shooter, 33-year-old Neely Petrie-Blanchard, allegedly shot Christopher Hallett in Ocala after she accused him of working with the government to deny

Manatee spotted in flooded Florida yard during Tropical Storm Eta

November 14, 2020
Tropical Storm Eta is bringing out all the monsters in Florida. Early in the week, a humongous alligator was caught on camera strolling the grounds of the Valencia Golf & Country Club in Naples. Now, a video has surfaced of a monster manatee munching grass in a flooded backyard in Flagler Beach. Matt Hathaway was

Florida teens attack boy and his mom over romantic dispute

November 12, 2020
A group of Florida teens allegedly ran over the mother of one of their rivals with a van on Tuesday due to an ongoing romantic dispute, police said. The initial argument started on social media when the woman’s son, whose name has not been released, began arguing with 15-year-old Kimberly Stone. Stone threatened to “hit”

Florida mom arrested during school board meeting on mask rule

November 11, 2020
A Florida mom was arrested for refusing to wear a mask at a school board meeting in which officials voted in favor of continuing to require them in the classroom, cops said. Kari Turner, 40, was seen on video being cuffed in front of her two children Tuesday at the Pinellas County School Board hearing

Joe Biden Wins Florida Primary as Coronavirus Disrupts Voting

March 18, 2020
(WASHINGTON) — Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus and building pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon his campaign. The former vice president’s third big night in as many weeks came amid tremendous uncertainty as the Democratic contest…

Finally – US Senate Confirms First African-American Women on Georgia’s Federal Courts

November 20, 2014
LDF Applauds Senate Confirmation of First African-American Women on Georgia’s Federal Courts On November 18, 2014, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) welcomed the historic votes by the U.S. Senate to confirm the first African-American female judges ever to serve on Georgia’s federal judiciary. The Senate confirmation of Leslie Abrams to the

Malik Aziz: A Black Independent Political Party – Have We Digressed?

October 1, 2014
Malik Aziz, Founder of The Muslim Street and founding Chairman of The National Black United Front of Florida, speaks on where we are as Black people in America with our current so called leadership and what must be done to make REAL CHANGE. While it’s obvious that the issues, troubles and concerns of the Black

Race In U.S. Court Cases; Beyond Trayvon Martin

August 13, 2014
Findings of Case Study The Impact of Race In U.S. Court Cases; Beyond The Trayvon Martin Case Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) July 25, 2013 A Just Cause, an advocate for the wrongfully convicted, released findings from it study on race and justice in the United Sates. The study includes a review of the IRP-6 case and the

Sonia Sanchez Speaks Truth to Power, Poetically [INTERVIEW]

April 27, 2014
Sonia Sanchez, great voice of the Black Arts Movement and beyond Consider it a creative insult to limit poetry’s national recognition to the month of April. Nonetheless, I thank the establishment (a.k.a. the Academy of American Poets) for establishing National Poetry Month, as readers politely dust the dirt off poetry titles too often neglected. For