The 10th Stanton Alumni Gala was held this past weekend at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. Nearly 700 gathered on Friday night for a fun filled evening of trivia, dancing and heavy hors d’oeuvres. Saturday night was […]
By Rhonda Silver – “Survivor” A True Story by Denise Jenkins James Conners was launched last Saturday at a book signing held at James Weldon Johnson’s YMCA. In her presentation she engages participants with vignettes […]
The Officers and Board members of The El-Beth-El Development Center hosted its 7th Annual “Stop the Violence Recognition” Banquet last weekend at the International Fire Fighters Local Banquet Hall. The annual “Stop the Violence Recognition […]
By Ywana Allen – This past weekend, former Jacksonville Jaguar Maurice “Moe” Williams hosted the inaugural Game Changers Symposium for high school and college athletes, parents and coaches at Impact Church. The purpose of the […]
“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil — black gold. […]
By George E. Curry Last weekend was supposed to be a remix of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. Richard G. Hatcher, who became the first Black mayor of Gary in 1968; […]
By Harry C. Alford Terrorism continues to grow in all corners of the world. What in the world are we, the United States, waiting on? During this election year we need to find out the […]
It should bother all of us that a man whom the FBI had investigated as a possible terrorist went into an Orlando nightclub and, claiming ties to the Islamic State, shot 49 people to death […]
The inaugural “Be Intentional” Women’s Breakfast was held June 25, at the Golden Corral on San Jose Blvd. #BeIntentional is a movement to encourage and connect women from various backgrounds to be more effective on […]
FROM LEFT TO right Don Harvest, a former student of Professor Johnson, Emmett Bryant, who played with Leon Hillard, Prof. Bennie W. Johnson and Rev. Paul Jakes Jr. posed for pictures Monday during the grave […]
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