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Saluting the ‘last men standing’

Larry Sanders, Robert Sanders and Lavar Sanders of LBJ Cemetery Services, Inc.
pose after digging a grave in Daytona Beach.
The Sanders family has buried deceased Volusia County residents
– by handheld shovel – for three generations.

By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
GUEST COMMENTARY

Mr. Dan Gilbert’s accusations expressed in an open letter…have legal and social implications for the league, its union and the character of LeBron James.

BY KATHLEEN HAUGHNEY
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE – Republican gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Bill McCollum ratcheted up the rhetoric on immigration Wednesday, trumpeting a proposal for state agencies to use a free background check on immigration status and noting his support for an Arizona-style immigration proposal.

Infamous water gun fight, Pajamas Night round out last day of cruise

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tom Joyner Foundation’s "Fantastic Voyage 2010’’ sailed from Miami on May 16. Florida Courier columnist Lisa Rogers-Cherry, photographer Delroy Cole and freelance journalist Keisha Pickett represented the Courier on the weeklong Caribbean ocean cruise. This is the seventh and final entry in a series of stories and reviews of the "party with a purpose.’’

BY KEISHA PICKETT
FLORIDA COURIER

It’s been a long week, but it feels like I could do it for another seven days if I had the chance. I was excited about our beach day at CocoCay, Bahamas. It was an island there just for us to act up on, and we did just that.

ASSOCIATED PRESS John Wooden, college basketball’s gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, died June 4 at age 99. Wooden died of natural causes...

SIGHT TO SEE:

Amazing Island, then Afros and jheri curls

‘One Million’ man talk revs up cruiser;
Kem and ‘Thelma’ add to good times

BY JACKIE JONES
BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM

Nearly every African-American knows someone with high blood pressure who is on medication. What a lot of people don’t know, however, is that everyone with hypertension isn’t automatically sentenced to a lifetime of pill-popping.

After the election of President Barack Obama, many African-Americans said to themselves, "If Barack Obama can win an election, I can too!"

That comment was ambitious, but unrealistic. Most of the African-American seeking victories in 2010 elections in the cities where Black-owned newspapers are published will lose.

Education grants going to Delaware and Tennessee

BY KATHLEEN HAUGHNEY
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE – Despite high hopes from state officials, Florida won’t receive federal money from the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top grant program – at least not yet.