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Sisters push to restore landscape, change lives in Frenchtown Local News

Sisters push to restore landscape, change lives in Frenchtown

October 6, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer During a recent walk down Dunn Streets, nestled in the heart of Frenchtown, Sabrita Thurman-Newby told the back story to almost every house she passed by. She pointed to where her realtor has a home. One building at the head of the street

Filling a need Feature

Filling a need

October 6, 2020

By St. Clair MurraineOutlook staff writer Not quite sure which of the many resource agencies for the homeless in Tallahassee that the National Association of Health Services Executives should help in coping with the coronavirus pandemic, two FAMU professors were called to help. Marisa A. Lewis, an associate professor in

Talon’s Market helps TCC students facing food insecurity Local News

Talon’s Market helps TCC students facing food insecurity

October 6, 2020

By St. Clair MurraineOutlook staff writer When Gerald Jones became the dean of student services at Tallahassee Community College, he inherited plans for setting up a food pantry to feed students who faced food insecurity. A $10,000 donation from Wal-Mart helped to turn the idea into reality as Talon’s Market. 

Crump wins historic $411 million verdict in Zoom trial Local News

Crump wins historic $411 million verdict in Zoom trial

October 6, 2020

Special to the Outlook QUINCY — A Quincy jury returned a record $411,726,608 million verdict last Friday night in favor of a local veteran who was paralyzed in a 45-vehicle interstate pileup. He was represented by nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump and co-counsel Robert Cox. 

FAMU hosts ribbon-cutting for new residence hall Local News

FAMU hosts ribbon-cutting for new residence hall

October 6, 2020

By Andrew SkerrittFAMU office of Communications A mid-week ceremony that marked the official opening of the FAMU Towers didn’t have a huge crowd, but it was a significant milestone for the newly opened 700-residence hall Wednesday. FAMU President Larry Robinson and senior administration officials were among those who participated in

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Sisters push to restore landscape, change lives in Frenchtown Local News

Sisters push to restore landscape, change lives in Frenchtown

October 6, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer During a recent walk down Dunn Streets, nestled in the heart of Frenchtown,

Filling a need

Filling a need

October 6, 2020

Talon’s Market helps TCC students facing food insecurity
Crump wins historic $411 million verdict in Zoom trial
FAMU hosts ribbon-cutting for new residence hall
Kentucky grand jury decision brings no justice in Breonna Taylor’s death; instead it echoes Black America’s past, present struggle for civil rights National News

Kentucky grand jury decision brings no justice in Breonna Taylor’s death; instead it echoes Black America’s past, present struggle for civil rights

October 6, 2020

By Aliyah Thompson TriceEdneyWire.com After 194 days since the death of 26-year-old emergency room technician Breonna Taylor, her family and Black

Court orders Trump administration to extend Census count through October 31
Black households earned 61 cents for every dollar of White median incomes
Death of Chadwick Boseman puts focus on colon cancer and African Americans
‘Not Forgotten,’ 26 missing children recovered in U.S. Marshal operation

Sports

Former Power Five coach Klenakis lands at FAMU as new offensive line coach Sports

Former Power Five coach Klenakis lands at FAMU as new offensive line coach

October 20, 2020

By St. Clair MurraineOutlook staff writer When FAMU resumes playing football next spring for its final season in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the Rattlers will have a new offensive line

Travis shines in first start, FSU falls at Notre Dame
Eagle men notch first cross-country national ranking
Maier sets cross-country record

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Injunction junction, what’s your function? Opinions

Injunction junction, what’s your function?

October 6, 2020

Judge Layne Smith Part 2 of a 4-part series that is running as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. When I was a boy, I watched Saturday morning cartoons. My

Say “no” to authoritarian rule on November 3
Myths and lies about poverty
The raging red flags of domestic violence

Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response To the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response To the Coronavirus

May 2, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, May 2, 2020 Let us continue to pray that our Lord will lead the scientists and physicians to find

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus

May 1, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Friday, May 1, 2020 Well, my brothers and sisters, the Lord has blessed us to see the fifth month in

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus

April 30, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Thursday, April 30, 2020 Are you determined to run on to see what the end will be? A person of

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus

April 29, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday, April 29, 2020 My devotionals this week are about the significance of identity, destiny and legacy. I took a

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus

April 28, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday, April 28, 2020 You are destiny’s child; you are a person of destiny and you were born to be

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus

April 27, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Monday, April 27, 2020 I strongly believe that God has given each of us a God-sized dream and destiny. God

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus Daily Bible Devotion

The Christian Response to the Coronavirus

April 26, 2020

By Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Pastor Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Sunday, April 26, 2020 I have been greatly blessed by almighty God to have been born into a family that