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ORLANDO, Fla. After participating in listening sessions, Orlando activist Caila Coleman said she was impressed by The Bowman Group, the police consulting organization tasked with reviewing the Orlando Police Department and making recommendations on reforms.
“I do want to give some credence to what they’re doing as a group, to actually come and sit down and talk to different people,” Coleman said.
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Second listening session on Orlando Police reform held Wednesday
The police consulting group will make recommendations for change in about 4 months
Activists happy with work of consulting group conducting review of police
PUBLISHED 8:10 PM ET Feb. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:10 PM EST Feb. 15, 2021
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Only about 30% of Vietnam veterans are still around to tell their story. Dr. Harvey Lester is one of the lucky ones.
He sat down with Spectrum News to share how his experience helped shape the way he saw his community.
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Dr. Harvey Lester served in Vietnam
He and his brother opened Polk County’s first and only African American Heritage museum
They run a nonprofit that has trained more than 3,000 students for success
“I appreciate everything the Army did for me; a young boy coming from Bartow – I was able to get my doctorates through the military.”
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. A Florida group of pastors, lawyers, physicians, educators, lawmakers, and legislators aims to ensure that people of color get vaccinated, and it’s involving churches and maybe even the White House to see that it happens.
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Task force eyes 156 Florida sites including churches as vaccination centers
Task force goal: “to make sure that all people of color are vaccinated”
Data from Florida: Blacks are 2½ times less likely than whites to get vaccinated
The Statewide Coronavirus Vaccination Community Education and Engagement Taskforce says it has established a preliminary list of 156 churches and community centers that want to help administer COVID-19 vaccinations in underserved communities, said Rev. R.B. Holmes, the head of the task force and the pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee.