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• Highlights of Miami Times Political Forum [VIDEO]

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  Thank you to eyeurbantv.com for video highlights from the first night of the Miami Times Political Forum, July 26,2012, at the Historic St. Agnes Episcopal Church in Overtown. Pay attention. Do your research. Don’t be fooled by lies and half-truths. Get out and vote!

   

   

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• Word on the Street by Bunquisha Keylolo Brown

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  Residents allege a County Commissioner, who shall remain nameless, for now, has circumvented established procedure and overstepped an existing community board by reducing and reallocating funds for an existing and agreed upon project without consulting board members. The residents also allege said Commissioner will not [...]

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• Legal troubles escalate for State Rep. Daphne Campbell

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  Just as the August 14, 2012 Primary election goes into the home stretch, The Miami Herald reports State Rep. Daphne Campbell, D-108 and her husband Hubert Campbell have been hit with liens by the IRS totaling over $145,000.  Rep. Campbell is already under investigation for [...]

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• President Barack Obama Endorses Congresswoman Frederica Wilson

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  Miami, FL – Friday, July 27, 2012, President Barack Obama released the following statement today supporting Congresswoman Frederica Wilson’s (D-Fla.) re-election to represent Florida’s 24th Congressional District.

  President Barack Obama endorses Congresswoman Frederica Wilson “Congresswoman Wilson has brought decades of experience to the U.S. Congress and fights every day [...]
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• Community icon, Rev. John A. Ferguson transitions

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  With extreme sadness we announce the transition of the legendary Rev. John A. Ferguson. He founded Second Baptist Church, one of the largest black churches in South Florida.

  At the Miami-Dade County School Board meeting of August 23, 2000, he was memorialized by the naming of a school [...]

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• Federal Judge Dismisses Case to allow Non Democrats to vote in Democratic Primary

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  by Christopher Norwood

   

  Miami-Dade County’s primary election for state attorney will remain open only to Democrats, a federal judge ruled Wednesday — meaning the selection of the county’s top law enforcement officer will likely be decided by 525,890 voters. Twenty year incumbent Katherine Fernández Rundle is squaring off [...]

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• Florida New Majority and partners Endorse Commissioner Barbara Jordan in District 1 County Race

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  Incumbent Barbara Jordan, Miami-Dade County Commissioner - District 1 with leaders of Florida New Majority and partner organizations

   

  Miami, FL – On Saturday, July 20 at the Miami Gardens offices of UNITE HERE, a coalition under the umbrella of Florida New Majority (FNM,) made up of community organizations, [...]

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• FAMU hazing death suspect denied bond

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  Florida A&M University marching band member Caleb Jackson remains incarcerated in Tallahassee as Circuit Judge Frank Sheffield denied him bond. When Jackson was arrested in May for felony hazing in the Robert Champion case, Jackson violated probation on earlier charges.  

  "It appears that the leopard hasn't changed its'" [...]

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• Grant Opportunities

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  Social Justice Groups

  The Fund for a Just Society, a program of the Unitarian Universalist Association, provides grants to nonprofit organizations that address issues of social and economic justice. The Fund supports organizations that use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society [...]

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• Career Opportunities

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  Workforce Career Advisor 

  The City of Miami seeks a workforce career advisor to be responsible for case management involving individual counseling, monitoring and motivating clients and assisting with the progress of clients in the fulfillment of their individual employment and training program service strategies. This is in accordance [...]

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