MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek went on ABC's "Top Line" today and blasted Jeff Greene on making his fortune by betting against middle class homeowners, Greene's voting record, and Governor Crist's support of drilling off Florida beaches before t ...
Posted Thursday, June 10th 2010 at 5:39PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - The Kendrick Meek for Florida campaign released a video today of Kendrick's speech at the America's Future Now conference (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzwetgvGNm8), one of the largest meetings of progressive activists in the ...
Posted Thursday, June 10th 2010 at 2:56PM
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kendrick Meek addressed the America's Future Now Conference today during the conference's closing session. Kendrick offered sharp criticism of BP and its corporate irresponsibility and used the oil spill crisis to make the case for ...
Posted Wednesday, June 9th 2010 at 1:09PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III - President of UMBC, researcher of science and math education, author, and activist. http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/06/freeman-a-hrabowski-iii-president-of-umbc/
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Posted Wednesday, June 9th 2010 at 12:14PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek's U.S. Senate campaign launched an online petition calling on Governor Charlie Crist to waste no time and veto HB 1143, a mean-spirited anti-choice bill (http://www.kendrickmeek.com/page/s/choice?source=facebook060 ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 2:06PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Samuel Munnerlyn, President of Trenholm State Technical College - http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/06/hbcu-presidents-samuel-munnerlyn-trenholm-state-technical-college/ ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 1:11PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - As President Obama will host a "tele-town hall" with seniors later this morning, Kendrick Meek celebrated the relief coming to nearly a half-million Florida seniors starting this week as part of health care reform enacted this s ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 11:39AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8b1RtCQUs
MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - As Kendrick Meek urges Governor Charlie Crist to veto HB 1143, a draconian anti-privacy legislation, commonly referred to as the ultrasound bill, Kendrick Meek's U.S. Senate campaign ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 9:58AM
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I know what it's like to lead a team to a thrilling victory. And I know what it's like to work hard to help your family get ahead.
That's why no matter how often Kendrick Meek says he's one of my biggest fans, I will always say I'm a bigger fan of ...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th 2010 at 9:48AM
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703303904575292644068240342.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Republicans in Washington are increasingly fidgety about developments in the U.S. Senate race in Florida. The bad news is that Republican consultants ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:54PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek received the endorsement today of the Alliance for Retired Americans in Orlando. In their endorsement, the Alliance highlighted Kendrick's fight for health care reform that puts seniors and middle class Floridians ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:48PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - PolitiFact reviews confirm that Charlie Crist really is really inconsistent.
Crist recently received two full flop ratings, one for claiming that he'd probably give Republican contributions back (http://www.politifact.com/flo ...
Posted Monday, June 7th 2010 at 3:41PM
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Greetings Everyone!
We are officially back for our hiatus as we allowed time for our staff to finish this past semester. We are pleased to be back with daily features of Black Scholars - we actually missed being immersed in the great work conducte ...
Posted Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 11:11AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Ronald Walters, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Dr. Ronald Walters is one of the most articulate and internationally renowned experts on issues of African Ameri ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 2:29PM
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Dear Friend,
Charlie Crist likes to think of himself as a newly-minted No Party Affiliation candidate, but he can't run away from his Republican past.
Just Wednesday, Jim Greer, the man Governor Crist handpicked to run the Republican Party of F ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 11:13AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek made national news this week as Time Magazine, NPR, Politico and the White House commented on Kendrick Meek's strong position in the race:
Time Magazine joined Kendrick on the tr ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 11:04AM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - Kendrick Meek, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, today issued a statement following reports that the jobless rate fell to 9.7%:
"Today's news makes me cautiously optimistic that we're turning the page from recession to re ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:55AM
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127406040
One of the most closely watched elections this fall will be for the open Senate seat in Florida. Up to now, most of the attention has been on the Republican side, where the momentum of ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:45AM
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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1994060,00.html
It's only June, but Florida's three-way U.S. Senate contest is already shaping up as a race to remember. It will have Republican Marco Rubio, the young and formerly unsung conservati ...
Posted Friday, June 4th 2010 at 10:22AM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Dr. Ronald Mallett. He is the 79th African-American to get a PhD in Physics, is a Physics Professor at the University of Connecticut, and is a Time Travel Researcher. http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/0 ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 4:04PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - The affidavit released after the arrest of Governor Crist's handpicked Republican party chairman Jim Greer raises some serious questions about the governor's interaction with Greer and the RPOF under his leadership.
"While th ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 2:47PM
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Fergenia H. Hood, was named 2010 Mississippi Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Ambassador for her dedication to the RIF mission and exemplary volunteer record at ICS Head Start.
“I am very excited about serving as RIF ambassador for the great state of ...
Posted Thursday, June 3rd 2010 at 1:33PM
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Today, The Black Scholars Index features Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congresswoman and Civit Rights Activist - http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/06/eleanor-holmes-norton-congresswoman-civil-rights-activist/ ...
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 at 1:48PM
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MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. - The Kendrick Meek for Florida campaign released the following statement regarding today's arrest of Jim Greer, Governor Charlie Crist's handpicked chairman of the Republican Party of Florida:
"Governor Crist is trying to walk ...
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 at 12:40PM
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Posted Tuesday, June 1st 2010 at 10:21PM
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