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By KRISTA LARSON, Oct. 9, 2014 (AP) First 16-year-old Promise Cooper’s mother complained of a hurting head and raging fever, and she died days later on the way …

FORT LAUDERDALE — Dillard High School girls’ basketball coach Marcia Pinder, regarded as Florida’s all-time winningest basketball coach, has been named to the National High …

You can imagine my surprise when in response to my first SFLTimes Op Ed on being Caribbean American rather than African American, a reader informed …

Black newspapers came into existence in 1827 when Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom’s Journal. Not long afterward, Frederick …

WEST PALM BEACH —  Noting his “exemplary involvement, support and dedication to the priorities, principles and programs of the League of Cities, ” West Palm …

FORT LAUDERDALE — Old Dillard Museum explores the history of juke joints and other places of importance in the socialization of people of African descent …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into …

I would imagine that every state, county and city in the United States has employed at least one person in a position that has the …

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is practically weepy at the thought of his daughter Malia going off to college, a …