Vigils were held around the state this week to honor the 17 lives lost in the South Florida school shooting. Jacksonville joined in the commemorations as community members gathered Monday evening at a candlelight vigil […]
“The film serves as a breath of fresh intellectual air, especially amid today’s sociopolitical climate. It is the power of representation in its best form. It is empowerment on a higher level. It is inspiration […]
by Rev. Jesse Jackson President Donald Trump keeps boasting about the low black unemployment rate, although African Americans still suffer nearly twice the unemployment rate as whites do. What Trump never mentions is the growing racial […]
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Now “45” wants a parade. He wants it in November, probably before the mid-term elections. Some see it as move to mobilize his base and stroke his own ego; others actually […]
By Parker Riley Trump is the Marie Antoinette of 2018. Never heard of her? She was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution and allegedly said “Let them eat cake until they all […]
Last month Walmart announced that they would be increasing starting wage rates for hourly employees in the U.S. to $11 per hour after passage of the Republican tax law. Great news to the company’s thousands […]
BY ESPN The Blackhawks have banned four fans from their home games for directing racist taunts toward Washington Capitals forward Devante Smith-Pelly. The Blackhawks also apologized to Smith-Pelly and the Capitals. “Racist comments and other […]
By a vote of 111-1 on Tuesday afternoon, February 20, 2018, the Florida House approved HB 139 to place a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The bill was signed by […]
Following a near-perfect football season, the William M. Raines High School football team was honored today with a proclamation by Mayor Lenny Curry for their state championship win. The Vikings defeated Cocoa High School 13-10 […]
Local nursing students received firsthand insight into the lives of the city’s Black nurses during segregation at a program sponsored by the First Coast Black Nurses’ Association and the Nursing department at FSCJ. Brewster Hospital, […]
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