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Month: September 2019

Entertainment

Dwyane Wade, Rick Ross Want to Own an NFL Team

September 13, 2019 admin 0

NY MAGEESEPTEMBER 11, 2019 *Dwyane Wade admits that his heart still resides in the sporting world, as the recently retired NBA star has revealed he’s open to owning a team in the NFL. In a conversation […]

Entertainment

In 1968, Three Students Were Killed By Police. Today, Few Remember The Orangeburg Massacre

September 13, 2019 admin 0

By FISHER JACK    SEPTEMBER 13, 2019   Why This Tragedy Is Rarely Remembered The Orangeburg Massacre is remembered by very few because it had occurred sometime before the famously known shootings at Kent State University. This event […]

Sports

14 Black Football Players Kicked Off Team Over Protest Armbands are Honored 50 Years Later

September 13, 2019 admin 0

The players were taken off the University of Wyoming team in 1969 for seeking to wear armbands to protest racism. Sept. 13, 2019,  By Associated Press Fifty years after 14 black football players were kicked off […]

National

Why the Man Trump Once Called ‘my African American’ is leaving the GOP

September 12, 2019 admin 0

Politics Sep 12, 2019 1:06 PM EDT Gregory Cheadle, the black man President Donald Trump once described at a rally as “my African American,” is fed up. After two years of frustration with the president’s rhetoric on race […]

National

Trump addresses historically black colleges and universities conference

September 12, 2019 admin 0

UPDATED ON: SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 / 3:08 PM / CBS NEWS President Trump touted his administration’s economic record for African-Americans during the 2019 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, insisting […]

Obituaries

Legendary Tailor Mariano Mendez Passes

September 12, 2019 Staff 0

Native son and legendary master tailor, Mariano Mendez passed last weekend at the age of 80 years old. He was born and raised in in the LaVilla Area of Jacksonville, FL, where his birth home […]

Lifestyle

Band Tributes Maze to the Delight of Fans Who Don’t Want to Let Go!

September 11, 2019 admin 0

Downtown Bay Street was filled with nightlife as club goers stood in line for an hour to gain entrance into their favorite dance club.  Over at the Justice Pub, the Groove Coalition band held a […]

Community

JSO Zone One Urban Analysis Dissects Communities Ills and Restoration

September 11, 2019 admin 0

By Lynn Jones On Saturday, September 7th, community stakeholders and Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office representatives within the Zone One service area met to review and finalize their Community Engagement Action Plan.  The Action Plan is the […]

Local

Robinson’s Celebrate 75th Wedding Anniversary

September 11, 2019 admin 0

Roxwell  and Janie Robinson married September 12, 1944, renewed their wedding vows in a double-ring ceremony at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church last weekend during  the morning worship service officiated by the Reverend Marvin […]

Local

Local AME Churches Join Forces to Aid the Bahamas

September 11, 2019 admin 0

The devastation in the wake of hurricane Dorian has left over 70,000 homeless on the island of the Bahamas. More than twenty African-Methodist Episcopal (AME) Churches in Duval County came together to send aid to […]

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