Following the Detroit Riots in the late 1960s, an outraged college student revisits the essay she wrote in high school.

Cities on opposite coasts of Florida — including one Southwest Florida community — are at the top and bottom of the most sinful places in the United States.A report from personal-finance website WalletHub listed 2023’s Most Sinful Cities in America. The report compares more than 180 U.S. cities based on seven sinful behaviors: anger and hatred, jealousy, excesses and vices, greed, lust, vanity, and laziness.

Pumpkin pies, turkeys, eggs, bread and vegetables — ingredients for a great holiday meal — were distributed in Collier County recently by dozens of volunteers like Kayla Ballard and Ava Adams, both First Baptist Academy students — “serving others, serves God,” Kayla said.The distribution was part of the 19th year for the Capital Wealth Advisors Turkey Drop Event and was made possible this year from Capital Wealth Advisors partnering with St. Matthew’s House in Naples to collect and pass out thousands of Thanksgiving meals.

The Salvation Army, Fort Myers Area Command was awarded $2.5M from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant to help Fort Myers families find safe shelter, housing and stability.Fund grants $117.55 million to 38 nonprofits across the U.S. making measurable progress on reducing family homelessness.

Israeli forces raided Gaza’s largest hospital early Wednesday, where hundreds of patients, including newborns, have been stranded with dwindling supplies and no electricity, as the army extended its control across Gaza City and the north.

The Black Power Movement promoted racial pride, self-respect and the acknowledgement of the beauty and dynamism of our culture. Most pronounced to me, as a former colored girl, was our definition of beauty: “Black is beautiful.” Our afros were the rage.

The Roy Hobbs World Series returns to Lee County after being canceled last year because of Hurricane Ian. The adult amateur baseball tournament attracts players of all ages and gives an economic boost to the area during the off-season for tourism.

Beach parking passes can be purchased starting on Monday, November 13, at the Sanibel Recreation Center, 3880 Sanibel-Captiva Road.

In my life, I have found myself as a colored, a negro, a Black, an African American, and a person of color. This is my reflection as a colored girl. Cultural deprivation is a sociological theory that asserts that ethnic and social groups possess inferior values, norms, skills, and knowledge which place them at a disadvantage in the larger society.

The first substantial videos to emerge from a panicked stampede at the University of Florida during a nighttime vigil for Israelis killed in the Hamas attacks show waves of terrified students sprinting out of their shoes, discarding phones and water bottles and colliding with startled and confused police officers who had drawn their pistols searching for a possible gunman through the melee.