January 2018 – Page 4 – Capital Outlook

Thank you Alabama for restoring my faith in decency!

January 16, 2018

By Dorothy Iman- Johnson Special to the Outlook I make no bones about it. I was praying that the day after the Alabama Senate election I would wake up proud instead of embarrassed by the state where I was born. I know former President Obama and former Vice President

Trump attends opening of Civil Rights Museum despite his own racial insensitivities

January 16, 2018

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire President Donald Trump was the lead person spreading the lie that President Barack Obama, America’s first Black president, was not born in the U. S. President Trump also equated Ku Klux Klan members and Neo-Nazis to people protesting the evils

During the Yuletide Season, Virginia church leads nation in giving to prisoners for a purpose

January 16, 2018

By Kenae Damon Trice Edney Wire Trudi Baptist currently works and volunteers at the Temple of Judah ministries in Richmond, Va. Her life hasn’t always been so good. Only two years ago, she was incarcerated in the Richmond City Jail, not certain about her future. But then, Baptist received

Darryl Jones a Santa for the young and old throughout the Year

January 16, 2018

By Dorothy Inman-Johnson Special to the Outlook Darryl Jones, now the Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Vitality for Minorities, Women, and Small Business Enterprise Programs, has been like the Santa Claus of Tallahassee for vulnerable residents, small, minority, and women-owned businesses throughout his career, regardless of the

‘Family reunion’ takes center stage at Simmons’ introduction

January 16, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Willie Simmons thanked a lot of people when he was introduced as the next head football coach at FAMU. “I’m home,” he said, setting the tone for an introduction that had the flare of a family reunion. “It’s such a great

Simmons brings winning attitude to FAMU

January 16, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer It was just a simple introduction of FAMU’s new head football coach, but there were so many expectations in the words of athletic director John Eason. “We want a championship coach,” Eason said to the liking of the huge crowd that came

Christmas budgets sometimes hard to maintain

January 16, 2018

By Daria Laycock Outlook writer If you blew your budget this holiday season you are not alone. Tallahassee residents spend on average between $100 and $500 on Christmas, according to a short survey of college aged students by the Capital Outlook. Many times shoppers like Kevencia Faton find themselves

NAACP Chair Emeritus: The fight for racial justice continues

January 16, 2018

By Leah Hobbs Trice Edney News Wire “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to go back to the good old days. I don’t want to go back to separate and unequal,” Roslyn M. Brock, chairman emeritus of the national NAACP, told a crowd on Jan.

Miles and FAMU AD Eason aren’t strangers

January 16, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer FAMU athletic director John Eason and Keith Miles have known each other for several years. They were so tight that their families sometimes took walks together. Eason, who was named interim AD in November, recently recollected those days. He also recalled some

Why Black men jump the fence?

January 16, 2018

By Ronald Holmes, PhD Special to the Outlook Seventy percent of Black women are unmarried and are twice as likely as White women to remain unwed. Of those who do marry, Black women are more likely to “marry down” as Black women in college outnumber Black men 2:1.