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Acting Police Chief Pamela Smith calls for faith leaders to step up in the fight against violence. On Saturday, the grandmother of a shooting victim prayed with her.

The Black Music Festival will feature performances from Worcester hip-hop fixtures Ladii Girl and Big Nate All Star,

Bartow to name street after football hall of famer Ken Riley at 9:30 a.m. Saturday on the corner of Bennett Court and Gibbons Street.

The event was the first of a planned series of monthly antiviolence rallies, to be held the 2nd Tuesday of every month in front of City Hall.

Worcester has had multiple shootings this summer, including a fatal one on Millbury Street last month.

Bartow has been home to Polk County’s African American Heritage Museum for more than 20 years. Now the museum owners are looking to expand with help from the community.

Sarah Connell Sanders: How to trick kids into eating bok choy and other leafy greens Sarah Connell Sanders Correspondent I’ve been a teacher for more than a decade, eight years at the middle school level, and three of the longest years of my life in elementary. Big kids make jokes and let their curiosities soar. Little kids throw up and cry a lot. It wasn’t all bodily fluids all the time. My principal was a profound mentor for me while I muddled my way through teaching technology to third-...

‘When They Integrated, the Black Community Disintegrated’: Brothers Open Museum In Central Florida to Share Stories Left Out of History Books Charles Luster, 79, and his brother Harvey Lester, 73, have dedicated the past 30 years of their lives to collecting Black history, stories you won’t find in most history books. The brothers opened the first and only African American Heritage Museum in Polk County, Florida, in 1993. They say knowing our history is more important today than it’s ev...

PUBLISHED 8:10 PM ET Feb. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:10 PM EST Feb. 15, 2021 SHARE 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. What You Need To Know Dr. Harvey Lester served in Vietnam He and his brother opened Polk County’s first and only African American Heritage museum...

Maude Graham, 40, a third-grade teacher at Rosabelle Blake Academy, was named Teacher of the Year for her incorporation of hands-on reading and writing activities, including scavenger hunts, rope climbing excursions and other out-of-the-box lessons. She also shares her life story with various groups, serves as a mentor, organizes parent/teacher events and spearheads a leadership program for third- through fifth-graders called “Leader in Me.”  Lisa Gill, a paraeducator at Jesse Keen...