Bishop Thomas Master

A main thoroughfare in the predominantly black town of Riviera Beach, Fla., was once called Old Dixie Highway. But now the road has a new name: President Barack Obama Highway. RIVIERA BEACH, Fla.:  The rechristened street runs close to a railroad cargo line, cutting across a humble corner of Palm Beach County and an impressive segment of the Southern mind. It used to be called Old Dixie Highway.  However, this two-mile stretch, flowing through the generally African American community of Riviera Beach, passes by another name. Presently, when guests need to eat takeout from Rodney's Crabs or love at the Miracle Revival Deliverance Church, they turn onto President Barack Obama Highway.  Our public excursion along this interstate is approaching its end, these eight years a haze and a slither. That memorable introduction of expectation. That alarm calls for change. The great desire tempered or hindered by downturn and time, a firm Congress and a man's lack of approachability....

  BY DAPHNE TAYLOR  FLORIDA COURIER  Ahmad Arbery, the jogger who started the hashtag #joggingwhileblack, in the wake of being executed by vigilantes in a White South Georgia neighbourhood in February, abandoned a distressed mother. She presently experiences issues confronting any given Sunday.  Wanda Cooper-Jones figured out how to tell the crowd at a Black Lives Matter wall painting revealing on Sunday, Oct. 18 that those days are harsh because that was the day her child was taken from this world for doing only going on a run.  "I struggle on Sundays, and today is a Sunday," she said through tears in the parking area of New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, in the dominatingly Black waterfront city of Riviera Beach, which is not exactly a 30-minute drive from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach.  A CHURCH FIRST  Diocesan Thomas Masters, originator and minister of the congregation and previous long-lasting civic chairman of Rivie...

  Connor Smith, 7, or Riviera Beach brings off the road on the new bicycle he got at New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, December 26, 2020. The bicycles were given by real estate agent Rob Thomson and distributed by Bishop Thomas Masters and volunteers.  DAMON HIGGINS/PALM BEACH POST  Twin siblings (l-r) Elijah and Aaron Overstreet, 8, watch their cousin Lance Cummings load up the new bicycles they got at New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, Saturday, December 26, 2020. The bicycles were given by real estate agent Rob Thomson and gave out by Bishop Thomas Masters and volunteers.  DAMON HIGGINS/PALM BEACH POST  Cameron Poole, 8, and his mother Beverley leave with the new bicycle he got at New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, December 26, 2020. The bicycles were given by real estate agent Rob Thomson and passed out by Bishop Thomas Masters and volunteers.  DAMON HIGGINS/PALM BEACH POST  Jacare Webbs, 13, stacks the new bicycle he got at New ...

  An area at New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church honors Martin, Corey Jones, Tinoris Williams and others who died in confrontations with police. Riviera Beach:  Standing close to the red-and-dark church parking spot that bears her child's name, Sybrina Fulton considered the groups of other people who have since lost friends and family to brutality.  In particular, Fulton — whose adolescent child, Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed in 2012 — talked about the Black Lives Matter development during her visit to the New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesday evening. She got a visit through recognitions that were painted out of appreciation for her child and others.  "It implies such a lot, due to Trayvon Martin, yet it's about different families also," she said. "It's tied in with ensuring that we won't ever fail to remember. It's about Black Lives Matter."  The congregation parking area bears a huge yellow painting with the words ...

  He considered his to be a diplomat for the city, an unassuming community chairman. The latter went wherever from China to Equatorial Guinea and The Bahamas, getting the message out, setting up sister urban areas programs, welcoming financial specialists to visit.  Presently it's more a think-around the world demonstration locally thing, as a Uber-driving representative and a recovery facilitating clergyman.  Diocesan Thomas Masters, chairman of Riviera Beach for a very long time, in March ended up cleared out by a tide of against occupant opinion that additionally expelled four out of five city committee individuals over about two years.  "I'm attempting to get straightened out to being a private residence," he said in a meeting Tuesday. "I'm proceeding with my service at the congregation and supporting the congregation and allowing the Lord to direct me and all the other things, and my own life is only that."  With his 67th birthday celebration com...