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Month: August 2016

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BLACK AND GOLD: Blacks Ready to Dominate Rio 2016 Summer Games

August 5, 2016 Staff 0

By Erick Johnson and J. Coyden Palmer,  Crusader Gold always looks good on black. Together, they radiate the dominance and grace of a dynasty. From the ornate relics inside the grand palaces of kings and […]

Sports

Uber Passenger Raises Over $8,000 to Send Driver to Rio to Watch His Son Compete in the Olympics

August 5, 2016 Staff 0

Thanks to the efforts of an Uber passenger, an Olympian’s father is now heading to Rio to watch his son compete. Uber driver Ellis Hill was driving passenger Liz Willock on an hour-long trip in […]

National

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Last Surviving Birmingham Bomber, Denied Parole

August 5, 2016 Staff 0

by CORKY SIEMASZKO An Alabama parole board has denied the last surviving Birmingham church bomber’s first attempt to get out of prison. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., an 86-year-old Ku Klux Klansman serving a life sentence for […]

Entertainment

Comedian Cocoa Brown Wows Her Audience with Educational Humor, Fun and Everyday Life

August 3, 2016 admin 0

By Lynn Jones – Appearing at Jacksonville Comedy Club, Friday, August 5th and Saturday, August 6, is Southern girl and single mom Cocoa Brown! Well-known for her role on Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, Ted 2, Single […]

Local

Students Recognized For Keeping Jazz Genre Alive

August 3, 2016 admin 0

  This past weekend, the Jacksonville Jazz Society (JJS) held their fifth Annual Scholarship Affair. The evening commenced with the Limitless Band which consist of approximately eight music students of Douglas Anderson School of the […]

Entertainment

Celebrity Housewife NeNe Leakes Brings Her Life to Fans in Jax!

August 3, 2016 admin 0

Actress and now comedian NeNe Leakes ascended on the Comedy Zone this past weekend to deliver jokes and antics on her career, family and her hit TV show, “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”. NeNe came […]

National

Slavery Reparations Sought in First Black Lives Matter Agenda

August 2, 2016 Staff 0

By Eric M. Johnson | SEATTLE A coalition affiliated with the anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement called for criminal justice reforms and reparations for slavery in the United States among other demands in its first […]

Editorials

What Does “Make America Great Again” Really Mean?

August 2, 2016 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood For months I have avoided writing about Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. I shouldn’t even call it Trump’s slogan because it’s really conservative propaganda that’s been repeated by numerous candidates and people who […]

Entertainment

Roxane Gay Becomes First Black Woman to Write for Marvel Comics

August 2, 2016 Staff 0

By K. Nicole Mills, hollywoodsblackrenaissance.com Roxane Gay With all of the amazing news surrounding the cast of Marvel’s upcoming feature film Black Pather, it’s important that we note that Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay will […]

Editorials

Is There Corporate Leadership or Racial Justice?

August 2, 2016 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux When North Carolina passed laws eliminating anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, along with it passed its “bathroom bill,” mandating that transgender people use the bathroom of their birth […]

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