Dwayne Saddler News Today

Friends, family members, and local advocacy groups came together for the annual Survivors Speak Healing Vigil on Saturday evening just weeks after 14-year-old Jevario Buie was found shot and killed near train tracks in Tampa.

The downside of Ventura hosting the X Games was that the TV coverage was equivalent of a skywriter spelling out: “Hey, world! Move here! The 805 is paradise!”

Dozens of crime survivors and families of murder victims boarded a bus Tuesday morning headed to Tallahassee for Survivors Speak Florida.

In a year all life in America was mandated to believe Black Lives Matter (above all other lives), someone forgot to tell the black population of Tampa Bay this monumentally important decree. Gun violence, almost exclusively with a black suspect (and almost always a black victim) doubled in 2020 from 2019, though we were required to believe Black Lives Matter starting around the end of May. Again, someone forgot to tell the black community in Tampa Bay of the Holy Writ surrounding Black Lives Ma...