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Youngster Takes to Meditation to Calm Covid-19 Anxiety

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The Highsmith clan made Coronavirus testing a family affair at the Legends Center, braving record temperatures to ensure their family was healthy. Lashun Sr., five year old Lashun Highsmith Jr. and wife Laquanda were taking […]

Greek Life

Chi Eta Phi Enabling Young Women to Pursue Nursing Careers

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The Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority Inc. recently held their 26th annual Helen Bargeron Nursing Scholarship luncheon culminating the giving of tens of thousands to young black women desiring to pursue nursing careers. Recipients of […]

Book Reviews

Local Author Traps Readers Minds to Release the Past for the Future

July 2, 2020 admin 0

By Lynn Jones – Chosen Vessels Publishing House and Author L.S. Taylor held a book signing at Mellow Mushroom Restaurant in Avondale for the release of A Trap Girls Bible by L.S. Taylor. With  a […]

Local

Volunteers Distribute Fruits and Vegetables to Food Desert Residents

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By Lynn Jones – The Circle of Caring is making their way through city streets with fresh food deliveries to seniors, homeless and the sick and shut in that reside in the urban core zip […]

Local

Weeks Later and Residents Still Showing Black Lives Still Matter

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Pastors, non-profits and members of the Jacksonville Faith Based Coalition held a Black Lives Matter peaceful protest from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) headquarters on Bay Street to the County Courthouse located on Adams Street. […]

Local

Local Women Create a United Front for Black Women Business Matter

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by Lynn Jones – The owner of Kayla Mill Boutique had a vision to assemble successful entrepreneurs and career women for a Duval Black Women United photo shoot to illustrate to the community that there […]

Entertainment

Jennifer Hudson on Playing Aretha Franklin in New Film Respect: ‘It Still Feels Like She’s in Me’

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By Janine Rubenstein – The Oscar-winner and powerhouse singer opens up about the role of a lifetime, portraying her idol in the highly anticipated upcoming biopic. Not many actors can say they were hand-picked by an icon to […]

Sports

Report: Cam Newton’s Patriots Contract Terms Include Only $550K Guaranteed

July 2, 2020 admin 0

By MIKE CHIARI – The New England Patriots are reportedly taking on very little risk when it comes to the one-year contract they signed quarterback Cam Newton to this week. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Newton will earn a […]

Political

Trump To African Americans: ‘If You Don’t Understand Your History, You Will Go Back To It’

July 2, 2020 admin 0

by Derek Major – President Donald Trump told Fox & Friends co-host, Brian Kilmeade, during a Sunday night special, his message to African Americans is “you have to learn” about “your historyAccording to Salon, Trump made […]

Editorials

Let Us Heed the Words of Frederick Douglass on the Emancipation Memorial

July 2, 2020 admin 0

By Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, National President, Association for the Study of African American Life and History – If Frederick Douglass could see the controversy over the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. today, […]

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