Local Historian, Florine Dawkins Awarded the 2026 Unity Award
Local historian and educator Florene Dawkins was honored Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, as the recipient of the 2026 Unity Award
Toyia Tucker has shown us time and time again that she is the perfect example that “all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” While she might revel in the fact that she won the re-election, she might consider that 48% of the voters in District 4 do not trust her. 1,249 voters in District 4 compare her to one of the Africans who sold thousands of their own people to European slave merchants through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what today is Nigeria.