REJECTED
The U.S. House of Representatives votes to end the Obama administration’s domestic phone spying program; Senate Democrats blocked a broad trade bill considered to...
HARRIET TUBMAN / ‘WOMEN ON 20s’
All about the Tubmans, baby
An online grassroots campaign by the organization “Women on 20s” selected abolitionist and Underground Railroad ‘conductor’ Harriet Tubman as the...
Three inducted into state Civil Rights Hall of Fame
SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER
TALLAHASSEE – Sallye Brooks Mathis, Edward Daniel Davis and Reubin O. Askew were officially inducted into the Florida Civil Rights...
Scott goes to Washington, D.C.
Continues fight against Obamacare
BY BRANDON LARRABEE
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
A congressional committee will hold a hearing on Gov. Rick Scott’s showdown with the federal...
HIS LIFE’S MISSION
President Obama launches ‘My Brother’s Keeper Alliance,’ a nonprofit organization focusing on improving the lives of Black and Brown men and boys.
BY CHRISTI PARSONS...
WRITE FIELD / POYNTER INSTITUTE
Young, gifted, in black
On May 1, 41 boys became the fourth class to participate in the Write Field’s graduation ceremony at the Poynter Institute...
Reunited after 50 years
Were others separated at St. Louis hospital?
BY NANCY CAMBRIA
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH / TNS
ST. LOUIS – Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the crown jewel of...
Tampa gets new police chief
BY SAMUEL JOHNSON
SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER
TAMPA – Eric Ward, a 47-year-old Tampa native who has spent his entire 26-year career with the Tampa...
‘A BALM IN GILEAD’
In Part 2 of an exclusive interview, Bethune-Cookman University’s current president describes his grand vision for the school.
BY JENISE GRIFFIN MORGAN
FLORIDA COURIER
Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU)...
Poor, Black, ignored
Problems were years in the making
BY NOAH BIERMAN
AND JOSEPH TANFANI
TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU / TNS
BALTIMORE – Tanishia Lewis and her young children were filling...
