MLK Leadership Series 2013 Orlando, Florida – December 5, 2012- The I.S. Hankins-F.A. Johnson Education Foundation, Inc. of Alpha Phi Alpha in partnership with the Mayor of Orlando’s MLK Holiday Commission, the Office of Diversity Initiative at UCF and the FAMU College of Law will be hosting the 2013 MLK Leadership Series – 8th Annual… Read more »
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Trayvon Martin family lawyers win Bar diversity award
By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks, attorneys for Trayvon Martin’s family, consider themselves lawyers who “fight giants” and take on the cases others would avoid. And now the Florida Bar is giving them some recognition as well. The Tallahassee attorneys were presented with the Henry Latimer Diversity Award at the annual… Read more »
Trayvon’s father tells Florida panel: It’s a bad law
By Michael Peltier (Reuters) – The parents of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in February, told a Florida task force on Tuesday that the state’s Stand Your Ground statute is “a bad law.” Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin asked state lawmakers to make changes in the… Read more »
Man Arrested for Club Lexx Shooting Denied Bond: Officials
View more videos at: http://nbcmiami.com. A judge denied bond Saturday for the security guard charged with second-degree murder for killing a man outside Club Lexx in northwest Miami-Dade. Authorities said Friday they arrested Lukace Kendle, 26, Friday afternoon at his home on SW 291st Street. Miami-Dade Police said they arrested the security guard for shooting… Read more »