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40th Session AKA Cluster Convenes to Celebrate HBCUs’, Scholarship and Sisterhood

November 1, 2016 Staff 0

By Nikki Torian. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Pi Eta Omega chapter recently attended the 40th session for Cluster III in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Cluster III comprises 10 chapters in the North Florida Region and […]

Lifestyle

Local Author Marti Forchion Named Outstanding Alumni by FSU

November 1, 2016 Staff 0

The Florida State University Black Alumni Association (BAA) recognized Jacksonville author, Marti L. Forchion, with the “Outstanding Alumni” award during its recent 2016 Black Alumni Homecoming Reunion National Awards Brunch, held at the FSU Alumni […]

Health

State Senator Gibson Visits Senior Center to Stress Importance of a Seafood Rich Diet

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

Last week State Sen. Audrey Gibson joined the Seafood Nutrition Partnership to celebrate National Seafood Month at the Mary Singleton Senior Center. Sen. Gibson handed out 150 goody bags (with coupons to Captain D’s, seafood […]

Lifestyle

29th Southern Womens Show Still a Hit with Jacksonville Femme Fatales

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

The 29th Southern Women’s Show entertained thousands of women last weekend with access to fashion shows, food demonstrations, vendors and more! Women from all ethnicities converged at the Prime Osborn Center for four days to […]

Local

Breast Cancer Survivors, Families and Teams Walk to Support the Cure

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

The annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk is a celebration of survivorship, an occasion to express hope and shared determination to eradicate breast cancer. More than one million volunteers nationwide sign up, fundraise, and […]

Lifestyle

6 Ways Social Media Can Tank A Marriage, According To Divorce Lawyers

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

It’s known that social media contributes to divorce; in a 2010 survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 81 percent of lawyers said they’d seen an increase in the number of divorce cases using […]

National

Black Face Ain’t the Same As Being Part of the Black Race

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

BLACK FACE AIN’T THE SAME AS BEING PART OF THE BLACK RACE Prairie View A&M (PVAMU) freshman student, Brooke Merino Here in recent years, several White people have chosen to make increasingly popular again, an […]

Entertainment

Original Dreamgirls Star Sheryl Lee Ralph to Return to Broadway

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

The New 411 Sheryl Lee Ralph, who was Tony-nominated for her performance as Deena Jones in the original company of the award-winning musical  Dreamgirls, will join the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Wicked”  next month. Beginning […]

Entertainment

Film Review: Tyler Perry Back in Drag for ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

by Kam Williams   Tyler Perry in ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ No one has ever accused Tyler Perry of being short on ideas. After all, the prolific writer/director has been the brains behind a profusion […]

National

Gunmen Shoot Up Sign Commemorating Where Emmett Till’s Body Was Found

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley, his mother. Gunmen recently fired bullets into a sign commemorating where Emmett Till’s beaten body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955 after Roy Bryant and his half […]

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