Mayor Lenny Curry recently appointed Marsha Oliver as Director of Public Affairs. Oliver currently serves as Chief of Public Relations and Marketing for the Duval County Public Schools. A Jacksonville native, Oliver graduated from Ribault […]
It’s estimated that 70 percent of people aged 65 and older will need long-term-care services at some point, either in a facility or at home. Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, strokes, and advanced osteoporosis are just a […]
If timing is everything, public relations professional and native Memphian Devin James’s recently released memoir “Inside Ferguson: A Voice For The Voiceless” may be the must read book of the season, and potentially a primer […]
Lincoln Anthony Blades, theGrio When I first heard that #BlackLivesMatter activists decided to upstage 2016 presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Martin O’Malley at the Netroots Nation convention, I was intrigued. It was a […]
Black boys and girls are suspended and expelled from schools at extremely high rates By Frederick H. Lowe African-American boys comprise 47% of suspensions and 44% of expulsions from kindergarten through 12th grade in public […]
Valor Academy, the first all male college prep school in Jacksonville, enrolled 140 young men in their Northwest location in its inaugural year in 2014. The young scholars scored multiple speech and debate victories on […]
Classes began this week for Florida Coastal School of Law students culminating a week of first-year student orientation with some community service. Nearly 300 new students were invited to participate in one of four activities […]
The Deep Resonance, a live performance at the Cummer Museum, combined August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean in dialogue with the Museum’s current exhibition Whitfield Lovell: Deep River. The exhibit is a voyage into the […]
By Angela Stewart For the past 18 years The Beauty Institute located has been serving the community to provide back to school supplies, haircuts and “hair dos” free of charge. This year’s event held at […]
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American “Hey, how have you been,” said Cathy Daniels, affectionately known to Ferguson protesters as “Mama Cat.” She walked around greeting people Thursday night […]
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