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Add These Black-owned Statement Tees to your Christmas List

December 18, 2017 Staff 0

acebook Tweet on Twitter By Sandria Washington, blackdoctor.org Black buying power currently sits at $1.3 trillion and according to this Nielsen Report, it’s expected to increase to a record $1.5 trillion by 2021. With so […]

Political

Black Women Are A Political Organizing Force. They’re Not Unicorns.

December 18, 2017 Staff 0

By Julia Craven, huffingtonpost.com It was early Wednesday morning, and DeJuana Thompson, founder of Woke Vote, still hadn’t slept. She’d spent the months leading up to the special Senate election in Alabama coordinating with thousands […]

Political

Omarosa Manigault Slams Report That She Was Fired

December 14, 2017 Staff 0

by C. Gregg Omarosa Manigault Newman, wife of Jacksonville Pastor John Newman,  shut down reports that she was fired from the Trump administration on Thursday morning, telling Michael Strahan that claims of her dramatic White House exit […]

Editorials

Applying Past Lessons to Change The Future

December 12, 2017 Staff 0

By Dr. Lillian Williams Dr. Lillian Williams “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Those are the words of Ida B. Wells, fearless anti-lynching crusader of the late […]

Entertainment

‘Facts of Life’ Atar Kim Fields Reveals How She Overcame the Child Star Curse

December 4, 2017 Staff 0

By Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News When Kim Fields had the opportunity to audition for the role of Dorothy “Tootie” Ramsey on “The Facts of Life,” the child actress almost walked out. The hit sitcom, which […]

Local

Former Congressional Rep. Corrine Brown Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud

December 4, 2017 Staff 0

The 17 month legal ordeal of former local U.S. Representative Corrine Brown ended this week in a Jacksonville Federal Courthouse. The beloved politician was sentenced to five years in prison for her role in helping […]

National

NAACP Commends American Airlines on Plan for Diversity Changes

December 4, 2017 Staff 0

NAACPPublished: 04 December 2017 In a meeting last week, the NAACP and several  civil rights organizations agreed with American Airlines on a package of changes to the company’s internal processes for addressing claims of racism and […]

Entertainment

CNN to Launch ‘The Van Jones Show’ in January

November 28, 2017 Staff 0

PHOTO CHELSEA/VARIETY by Brian Steinberg (Variety)Van Jones, the civil rights advocate and former Obama administration advisor, will get a regular bimonthly slot on CNN’s primetime schedule with “The Van Jones Show.”The one-hour program will launch […]

International

Activist, 10, Makes Appeal to Trump on Behalf of Haitian Immigrants

November 28, 2017 Staff 0

by Jared Mcallister (NY Daily News) The Trump administration’s plans to finally terminate Temporary Protected Status designation for Haiti rocked advocates, organizations— and the close to 60,000 men women and children who face deportation and […]

Religion

Spiritually Speaking: Having Total Faith in What You Believe

November 27, 2017 Staff 0

by James Washington I have often thought, heard and to some degree concluded that Jesus, as was Paul, was killed because He dared to stand up and speak truth to power. He and many of […]

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