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Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson Marks Child Welfare Professionals DayCongresswoman Frederica S. Wilson Marks Child Welfare Professionals Day — Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24) held a news conference on May 9, to recognize and celebrate Child Welfare Professionals Recognition Day. The news conference, held on the grounds of the Judge Seymour Gelber and Judge William E.… Read more »

Program awards 81 college scholarships to Miami-Dade minority studentsMIAMI (WSVN) — Almost a hundred Miami-Dade high school seniors received scholarships for college, thanks to a special program.Monday night, the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project held its prestigious annual Academic Signing Day at Jungle Island.Eighty-one young men signed scholarships to the colleges or… Read more »

Congresswoman Reacts To Murder Of Former Miami-Dade County CommissionerMIAMI (CBSMiami) – A local congresswoman shares her thoughts about a former Miami-Dade County commissioner found murdered in his Georgia home.Former Miami-Dade County Commissioner James Burke, convicted on corruption charges in 1999, was shot dead police say by his wife in their Waycross, Georgia home Saturday… Read more »

Have we forgotten the kidnapped school girls in Nigeria?Have we forgotten the kidnapped school girls in Nigeria?It was two years ago, April 14th to be exact, that the world witnessed the abduction of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from their dormitory rooms at the hands of Boko Haram – a West African terrorist group that has lodged atrocities against its own people including the burning… Read more »

Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson hosts candlelight vigil at the U.S. State Department to honor the Chibok GirlsWith the U.S. State Department as their backdrop, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, gave the world a moving reminder that the 219 Chibok schoolgirls who are still missing after their abduction by Boko… Read more »

BRING BACK OUR AFRICAN GIRLSAlthough separated by thousands of miles, and vast political and cultural differences, one major commonality between the Chibok school girls and Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson is the idea that an education can change lives. Two years ago when she learned that the girls had been kidnapped on April 14, 2014 as punishment for seeking an education, Wilson was… Read more »

Chibok girls remembered daily in U.S. Congress, says PelosiUnited States House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi yesterday reaffirmed Capitol Hill’s support for finding the 219 schoolgirls who were abducted two years ago.Alongside fellow members of Congress and girls who had escaped the 2014 kidnapping, Pelosi (D-Calif.) they repeated pledges to locate the girls and bring them to… Read more »

U.S. Lawmakers Renew Calls To Find Nigerian Girls Captured By Boko HaramROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:It's been two years since Boko Haram militants raided a school in Nigeria, capturing hundreds of girls. It sparked outrage around the world and the social media campaign, Bring Back Our Girls. But now CNN is airing what it says is a proof of life video. It was reportedly made in December and… Read more »

Lawmakers Recommit to ‘Bring Back Our Girls’On the second anniversary of Boko Haram's kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls, Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica S. Wilson and colleagues vowed to continue pushing for their return. “We find ourselves now in a precarious situation, where we are mourning…and hoping,” Wilson said at a news conference… Read more »

US Lawmakers Vow Never to Forget Nigerian Girls Taken by Boko HaramRepresentative Frederica Wilson of Florida is easy to spot in a crowd. Dressed all in red from her cowboy hat to her boots, she stood on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to mark the somber two-year anniversary of the abduction of more than 200 girls from the northern Nigerian village of Chibok by the militant… Read more »