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New Decade Begins with Clear Black Agenda

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

By Hazel Trice Edney Trump impeachment highly supported by Black people, likely because of his fueling of racism and White supremacy.   Activist Melanie Campbell maintains hope for increase in Black voting and Black elected […]

Greek Life

Phi Beta Sigma Outraged at Ralph Lauren for Selling Pants Bearing Their Greek Letters

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

It seems that despite the fiasco caused by Burberry, Gucci and even H&M last year, designers are still not doing their homework on cultural sensitivity.  Another clothing brand seems to be having an issue and has […]

Editorials

Ideology Aside, the Florida Supreme Court Needs a Black Jurist

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

By Sens. Perry E. Thurston Jr. and Darryl E. Rouson The Florida Supreme Court lacks the diversity needed to satisfy the many legal needs of Florida’s divergent, ethnic and racial communities. Justice Thurgood Marshall once […]

Local

M.W. Gilbert Celebrates Reunion with  Scholarships and Fellowship

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

The new year kicked off with the annual celebration of the Matthew William Gilbert Alumni Association Inc., at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Jacksonville. This year the last graduating glass of 1970 was celebrated on […]

Greek Life

Alpha Phi Alpha Establishes New Chapter on the First Coast

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

by M. Wilkes This past Saturday, the newest chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated in Florida was chartered in Orange Park. Thirty-two members of the nation’s oldest fraternity for African-American men founded the new […]

Lifestyle

Vision Board Creators Set the Pace for 20/20 Vision

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

With a special ability to motivate people to see their purpose, Coach J Dianne Tribble, CEO and Founder of At the Table Life Coaching presented her 11th Vision Board training to help participants make 2020 […]

Book Reviews

Attorney Ben Crump Talks New Book, ‘Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People’

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s so asinine that the actions of the killer of [Trayvon Martin] their teenage son will continue to devastate them over and over again. Every year he comes up with something like […]

Editorials

Will the Assassination of Iran’s General Soleimani Be Trump’s 1914 Moment?

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

by Dr. Wilmer Leon “Last night, at my direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed a number one terrorist anywhere in the world, Qassem Soleimani…We took action last night […]

Editorials

Will Money Rule the Presidential Race?

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Democrats started this Presidential campaign season with more than 20 candidates. Eventually, it dropped to about a dozen, with, so far, only five of those “qualified” to appear on the next […]

Editorials

Thoughts of Another Black President Seems to Discourage the Democratic Party

January 8, 2020 Staff 0

by David Love Democratic Senator and Presidential candidate Cory Booker recently announced that he will not make an appearance on stage during this week’s Democratic nomination debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on […]

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