April 2018 – Page 2 – Capital Outlook

FAMU spring game will feature some players in new positions

April 25, 2018

St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer If there will be any major personnel change for the FAMU football team, it may come in the fall. Not that moving at least four players to positions they’ve played in the past or playing for the first time isn’t big in

God and man

April 25, 2018

By Kenneth Graham Special to the Outlook One evening, a well-to-do young man; strong, healthy, vibrant, and cerebral, was sitting and gazing out the window. He contemplated whether or not he should get up and wash his bottom (ie. gluteus maximus or glutes)! So he asked the Good LORD; LORD

Simmons’ wife issues fund-raising challenge between counties

April 11, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Shaia Renee Simmons, the wife of FAMU’s head football coach, was done speaking about a telethon of sorts at a recent meeting of the 220 Quarterback Club. She yielded the podium to her husband, then suddenly dashed back to the microphone with

Tallahassee QB Robinson finally getting Super Bowl ring

April 11, 2018

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer It’s been more than a month since Tony Robinson found out that he and the other replacement players who made up the Washington Redskins’ roster 30 years ago will be getting Super Bowl rings. So many years have passed since he got the

Judge O’Neill’s impartiality questioned in Bill Cosby hearing

April 11, 2018

NNPA NEWSWIRE SPECIAL REPORTING: The Bill Cosby Trial By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor NORRISTOWN—Two days of hearings in the Bill Cosby retrial got off to a rough start, as the judge chastised defense attorneys for the way they’ve filed paperwork with the court. Judge Steven O’Neill, who

Conference brings causes of trauma to light

April 11, 2018

By Christina Hunter Outlook writer Sean Wyman didn’t understand why he turned to drinking. He just knew that he felt a sense of reprieve from the buzz while he was trying to cope with a divorce. On top of that, he was living with being sexually abused before he was

Spiritually Speaking: Taking it one day at a time

April 11, 2018

By James Washington The Dallas Weekly/NNPA Member Today is truly a day that the Lord has made and the more complicated the world gets, the simpler the Word of God is to understand. Often, and do I mean often, I get reminded of the power and seductive nature of ego,

In Louisiana Alton Sterling’s Black life didn’t matter

April 11, 2018

By Dorothy Inman-Johnson Special to the Outlook There have been so many senseless and unjustified deaths of Black men and boys by police that it seems impossible and agonizing when nothing is done to hold these officers accountable. The latest outrage is the news, two years after Alton Sterling’s death,

How to protect yourself from Medicare fraud

April 11, 2018

By Ryan Curran, MD Special to the Outlook Every year, Medicare fraud affects consumers and companies across the nation. Estimates say that last year alone, there was over $1 billion in fraudulent Medicare billings. Not only does Medicare fraud inflate the cost of medical care for everyone, but it can

The gun control debate ignores Black lives

April 11, 2018

By Glenn Ellis Trice Edney News Wire Students from across the country walked out of class on March 14 at 10 a.m. to protest gun violence and demand new legislation. The students left classes for 17 minutes to commemorate the 17 lives lost in the Parkland school shooting. Some even