March 2018 – Page 2 – Capital Outlook

FAMU Credit Union to administer DEO loans to Black businesses

March 27, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Making a point about what he envisions with the announcement that FAMU Credit Union has $1.1 million to help Black owned businesses, Ernest Allen shared a brief but vivid memory of the days when business in Frenchtown was robust. Many

Crump gets award named for first Black colonel

March 27, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Benjamin Crump’s fights as a civil rights attorney have been equated to similar issues faced by some of his well-known predecessors in the legal field. Now he’s being compared to Charles Young, the first Black soldier to become a colonel in the

New Florida gun law better, not enough

March 20, 2018

By Dorothy Inman-Johnson Special to the Outlook Florida’s gun bill passed by the Legislature on March 7 and signed into law by Governor Rick Scott on March 9, was titled the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. If not for the very effective #neveragain campaign launched by the

Grant impressive in relief for Rattlers

March 20, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer The hits just weren’t coming for FAMU in the final game of its opening Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball game against Bethune-Cookman University. Rattler reliever Jamie Grant didn’t allow the Wildcats to do much offensively, either. Grant, a product of Florida High

Simmons moves to change football culture at FAMU

March 20, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook Staff Writer Stop wondering what kinds of changes Willie Simmons is going to make as FAMU’s new head football coach. Anyone who was at the 220 Quarterback Club’s luncheon a week ago got an earful of what he brings. Simply put, Simmons is changing

Happy Motoring brings vibrance to South Monroe

March 20, 2018

By Kathryn Lewis Outlook Writer The green turf, stringed lights, white picnic tables and murals painted with vibrant colors creates a refreshing ambiance in the place that stood for years as an abandoned gas station. Over the years the old Esso slogan, Happy Motoring, hung on the front of

Budgeting in the bayou and beyond

March 20, 2018

By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. Trice Edney New Wire Early in life, I was taught the importance of saving by a man named Jesse Hill from Atlanta, Georgia. His is a piece of advice I’ve appreciated all my life. No matter how little money I made at times, I

Spiritually Speaking: The fight is fixed. You won.

March 20, 2018

By James Washington The Dallas Weekly/NNPA Member Some of you may remember that I declared this some time ago and it bears repeating. I wish it was original, but it is not. It comes straight from the pulpit and not from me. Circumstances in my life and maybe yours

Lifting Up New Leaders: The future of Black women’s history

March 20, 2018

By Juliannne Malveaux Trice Edney New Wire All too often, our “history” month turns into a tribute to the past. And while the past is an important place to lift up it is, indeed, a tributary, a stream that flows into the larger stream of an unbounded future. The

New EPI study shows no Black progress in 50 years

March 20, 2018

By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor Late last year, “The Washington Post” wrote that African Americans were the only group that showed no economic improvement since 2000. They based their conclusions on Census data. This year, there was even more sobering news in a report by the Economic