• About Us
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe
  • Submit Photo
  • Fictitious Name
  • Event Submission
    • Around Town
    • Church News
  • Contact Us
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • rss feed
Free Press of Jacksonville
  • Home
  • News
    • Community
    • Local
    • National
    • International
    • Education
    • Business
    • prnewswire
  • Entertainment
    • Crosswords
    • Sudoku
  • Politics
  • EDITORIALS
  • Lifestyle
    • Health
    • Advice
    • Book Reviews
    • Religion
    • Urban Traveler
    • Greek Life
    • Obituaries
  • Sports
  • Calendar
  • Photos
Breaking news
  • [ June 19, 2026 ] A.L. Lewis Fund Awards $70,000 in Grants to Local Organizations Serving Minority Communities Local
  • [ June 19, 2026 ] Black Women Leaders Are Not Burnt Out, We Are Being Extracted From Editorials
  • [ June 19, 2026 ] Juneteenth: Why It Matters in 2026 National
  • [ June 18, 2026 ] For a Time Such as This: NAACP Meetings Growing with Focus on Voting Rights and Engagement Community
  • [ June 18, 2026 ] Alpha Phi Alpha Celebrates Academic Excellence Across the First Coast Greek Life
Home2019August

Month: August 2019

Editorials

Florida Education Plan Lacking in Both Promise and Practice

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

By Dr. Elizabeth Primas How is Florida addressing the needs of its lowest-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? Last year, the Collaborative for Student Success an independent non-profit education advocacy organization, sought […]

Editorials

There Are Too Many Guns in America

August 12, 2019 Staff 0

by Shaun King On Saturday evening, at a wonderful festival in Brooklyn just a few miles from my house, 12 people were shot. On Sunday evening, in the Bay Area of California, at a Garlic Food […]

National

Texas officers on horses led handcuffed black man by a rope

August 6, 2019 admin 0

Aug. 6, 2019, 10:11 AM EDT By Elisha Fieldstadt “The police chief in Galveston said the “practice was not used correctly,” considering the nature of the arrest.” A Texas police department changed its policy Monday […]

Book Reviews

Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison Dead At 88

August 6, 2019 admin 0

by Krystal Franklin August 6, 2019  hoto by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Stella Adler Studio of Acting The literary world lost a beloved icon Monday night. Novelist Toni Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center […]

Entertainment

Disney Dreamers Academy Alumna Returns to Walt Disney World as Miss Delaware’s Outstanding Teen 2019

August 6, 2019 admin 0

Disney Dreamers Academy 2019 alumna Jacqueline Means returned to Walt Disney World Resort on Monday with a new title – Miss Delaware’s Outstanding Teen. The visit was a chance for Jacqueline to show her new […]

Posts navigation

« 1 … 6 7

WE APPRECIATE YOU DONATING TO OUR FUND THAT SUPPORTS THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM & THE INDEPENDENT PRESS

(Please enter your Payment methods data on the settings pages.)

Video Of the Week

Twitter

Tweets by @JacksonvilleFP

About JFP

JFPress provides local, state and national news.
Recent Posts
  • A.L. Lewis Fund Awards $70,000 in Grants to Local Organizations Serving Minority Communities
  • Black Women Leaders Are Not Burnt Out, We Are Being Extracted From
  • Juneteenth: Why It Matters in 2026
  • For a Time Such as This: NAACP Meetings Growing with Focus on Voting Rights and Engagement
Menu
  • About Us
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe
  • Submit Photo
  • Fictitious Name
  • Event Submission
    • Around Town
    • Church News
Comments
    • About Us
    • Media Kit
    • Subscribe
    • Submit Photo
    • Fictitious Name
    • Event Submission
      • Around Town
      • Church News

    Copyright @ 2026 Website Design by No Regret Media