February 2023 – Capital Outlook

Love the skin you’re in

February 17, 2023

Jamila Nalls Special to the Outlook Jamila Nalls, a seasoned makeup artist, skin care enthusiast, and Tallahassee’s own No. 1 beauty consultant has years of management and consulting experience. You can find her at the Walgreens on the corner of Thomasville Road and Village Square. Her love for all things

Our challenge during Black History Month: Resistance to ignorance

February 17, 2023

Julianne Malveaux Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets a theme for Black History Month. This year the theme is Black Resistance. It is appropriate for a time such as this because it reflects the work we must do in a climate where

We cannot accept mass murder

February 17, 2023

Jesse Jackson Once more the horror. Three mass shootings in California – 11 killed at a ballroom dance hall in Monterey Park, seven killed at Half Moon Bay, and a week earlier, a 16-year-old mother and four others shot in a California farming community – are tragic and grotesquely routine.

DeSantis has charted a course to the White House that cuts through the swamp of White supremacy

February 17, 2023

Marc H. Morial Ron DeSantis has clearly demonstrated that he wants to dictate whose story does and doesn’t belong. He wants to control what our kids can learn based on politics and not sound policy … He wants to say that I don’t belong. He wants to say that you don’t

Food insecurity on the rise among middle class families

February 17, 2023

More than three-quarters of Florida adults are having a harder time affording groceries compared to this time last year.Photo by St. Clair Murraine Special to the Outlook Many Floridians are experiencing symptoms of food insecurity, even those employed with median or higher household incomes, according to a recent poll commissioned

Local high school leaders participate in the Links Beautillion

February 17, 2023

Samuel Melchizedek Jackson KingAxama Rene’ Shamir Mehki FranklinIsaac Mizell Triplett The Tallahassee Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has launched its 13th Annual Leadership Development, Mentoring, Character Education Program and Links Beautillion. The Links Beautillion features a multi-faceted curriculum-based program that will culminate on March 5 at 6 p.m. at the

Parkland shooting ‘feels like five minutes ago’

February 17, 2023

Memorials were set up around Parkland after Nikolas Cruz’s shooting rampage five years ago.Photo submitted By Dara KamNews Service of Florida Five years after a mass shooting that shook Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and Parkland remain inextricably linked to the ghastly day when a troubled teenager in less

St. Thomas University law school honor for Crump is first for practicing Black attorney

February 17, 2023

Attorney Benjamin Crump was honored by FAMU 14 months ago with an honorary degree.Photo by Glenn Beil/FAMU office of Communications Special to the Outlook MIAMI GARDENS — St. Thomas University in Miami became the first law school in the country to name its College of Law in honor of a

After Veteran’s Administration rejected payment for his cancer treatment, Black veteran credits HBCU for saving his life

February 17, 2023

Lawrence Davis By Hazel Trice EdneyTriceEdneyWire.com The benefits of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are well known by those who enroll in them, support them or otherwise associate with them. Among the top five benefits, according to the United Negro College Fund, HBCUs meet the needs of low-income students;

Black woman-owned business encounters discrimination in quest to help Ukraine

February 17, 2023

Bombing by Russian forces has left Ukraine residents squatting in tent villages on the side of the road.Photo submitted By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Carolyn Davis, like many others, had an immediate reaction to the destruction in Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion. “Those folks need help,”