November 2016 – Capital Outlook

Late TD secures Rickards’ first trip to regional final

November 29, 2016

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Coach Quintin Lewis doesn’t use the word resilience loosely. At least not when he’s talking about what he’s seen from his Rickards High School football team lately. Rickards, winner of three of its last four games in the closing minutes, did

East African runners excel on track, scooping NYC Maraton’s first prize

November 29, 2016

Special to the Outlook Eritrea’s Ghirmay Ghebreslassie and Kenya’s Mary Keitany won the New York City Marathon Sunday, with Keitany becoming the first woman to win three straight titles in more than three decades. The 19-year-old Ghebreslassie — the youngest-ever male winner in the contest — finished his

FAMU begins its Home Depot Retool Your School Makeover

November 29, 2016

Special to the Outlook FAMU students and faculty, along with staff from the local Home Depot all gathered at FAMU recently to celebrate the school’s prize of $30,000 in The Home Depot Retool Your School Campus Grant Program and to begin installation of its new walkway and flowerbeds. The Retool

After surprise election results, Africans assess a changed U. S. landscape

November 29, 2016

Special to the Outlook Africans were tweeting and messaging about the surprise outcome of U.S. elections last week that left many in the developing world worried for the future. Kenyan-American and distinguished professor Makau Mutua was “quarterbacking” as a “day after” couch potato who second guesses why his

Do not be complacent in the face of hate

November 29, 2016

By Marc Morial Trice Edney News Wire “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — President Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided” Speech, June 16, 1858 The day after Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States of America, a group of middle school students in Royal Oak,

Afterthoughts on a debacle

November 29, 2016

By E. Faye Williams Esq. Trice Edney News Wire DEBACLE: a complete collapse or failure. For Liberals or Progressives, the 2016 presidential election is nothing less than a DEBACLE. Since Trump’s victory, political and social uncertainty remain top-trending topics. Trump now holds us in suspense, looking to his

Will Republicans prevail in 2018?

November 29, 2016

By Julianne Malveaux Trice Edney News Wire The apprehension that I felt upon Donald Trump’s victory in the Presidential election has only increased as he has announced the appointments of his chief of staff, strategist, and cabinet members. As of this writing, he has mainly announced the selection of older

Conviction upheld in high-profile teen shooting death

November 29, 2016

By Jim Saunders The News Service of Florida Rejecting self-defense arguments in a case that drew national attention, an appeals court Thursday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a man who fatally shot a teen in the parking lot of a Jacksonville convenience store. A three-judge panel of the 1st

Trump taps Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General

November 29, 2016

[subtitle]Congressional Black Caucus and LDF call him a racist[/subtitle] By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire President-elect Donald Trump will nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions U.S. Attorney General, and his selection was immediately blasted by the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) given

Supreme Court rejects two death sentences

November 29, 2016

By Jim Saunders The News Service of Florida The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned death sentences and ordered life in prison for two inmates, ruling in one case that a convicted murderer who was not the triggerman should not have received a harsher sentence than his co-defendants.