March 2020 – Page 6 – Capital Outlook

Black Chicago swim team member files lawsuit against three police departments

March 17, 2020

By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor Jaylan Butler, a swimmer at Eastern Illinois University, said he was unlawfully confronted by a police officer who pressed a handgun to his forehead and warned that if he kept moving, he would have his head blown off, is suing the police department.

VP Joe Biden signals: You’re at the table. Have a seat.

March 17, 2020

By Gayle Andrews Special to the Outlook When Vice President Joe Biden launched his campaign for President, he made it clear that African Americans would play prominently in his appeal for support of his candidacy. That may not seem like a revelation now that everyone talks about the “pragmatism,” the

Noles climb to top of ACC, climb ladders to cut down nets

March 17, 2020

By Tim Linafelt Seniors writer/Seminoles.com Back in September, a few weeks before the start of college basketball season and several months before the Florida State Seminoles would embark on one of the most memorable runs in school history, Leonard Hamilton had a conversation with his team about ladders. Meaning the

TCC gets at-large berth in juco national tournament

March 17, 2020

Special to the Outlook It just seemed deserving after one of the most impressive seasons in the history of men’s basketball at Tallahassee Community College. For two days the Eagles had to wait until Monday afternoon when they found out that they have locked up a berth in the National

Award recipients tied together by same television station

March 10, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Six days after being honored at the African Americans in Media Awards, Lanetra Bennett was promoted to morning anchor and the mid-day co-anchor at WCTV. Ironically three other Black women, who left their mark on the way the CBS affiliate delivers the news,

Taylor is now fulltime president/CEO of Urban League

March 10, 2020

By St. Clair Murraine Outlook staff writer Calling his appointment as president/CEO of the Tallahassee Urban League “the opportunity of a lifetime,” Curtis Taylor said he will intensify the organization’s effort on fighting crime. Bringing back the Urban League’s jobs program will be a good start, he said. “We’ve got

National Black Political Convention aims to set Black agenda

March 10, 2020

By Brianna Nargiso Trice Edney Wire.com As political observers continue to track America’s high valued Black vote to see which Democratic Presidential candidate may win the lion’s share this election year, the National Policy Alliance will host the National Black Political Convention at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C.

House, Senate at odds on vaping solutions

March 10, 2020

By Dara Kam News Service of Florida House and Senate leaders agree that the state needs to rein in teenagers’ skyrocketing use of electronic cigarettes, which the U.S. surgeon general has called an epidemic. But the two chambers have adopted different approaches on the issue and, with time running down

Error causes Medicaid shortfall for hospitals

March 10, 2020

By Christine Sexton News Service of Florida Medicaid officials made a calculation error that has resulted in upward of a $100 million shortfall in payments to Florida hospitals this fiscal year for caring for poor, elderly and disabled patients. Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, and Rep. MaryLynn Magar, R-Tequesta, told

Outgoing Mississippi governor says state faces ‘1,000 years of darkness’ if Black man elected

March 10, 2020

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Fifty-two years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and 55 years after Jim Crow, Mississippi is burning again. Phil Bryant, the now-former governor of Mississippi – a state that was one of the flashpoints of the civil rights