Community

The Live Long and Like It Senior Citizens Club was organized January 1970 at the Emmett Reed Center and under the direction of Anne Hedgecloth of the Jacksonville Recreation Department. The purpose of the club […]

Local organizations united to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Black National Anthem “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” by Jacksonville’s very own James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson. Held at he Ritz Theater and […]

The community continues to mourn the loss of a young man taken too soon. Jordan Davis was a 17-year-old high school student when he was murdered for playing his music “too loud”. On what would […]

As part of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp’s salute to Black History Month and the Negro Leagues’ Centennial Celebration, the club hosted the inaugural High School Heritage Classic exhibition game between rivals William M. Raines High […]

January 25, 2020 kicked off Wellness RX in New Town Success Zone. Wellness RX, a community led wellness programming effort to educate families, empower the community to develop healthier habits and encourage personal goals, celebrated […]

Communities In Schools of Jacksonville (CIS) raised more than $170,000 at its 30th anniversary gala to benefit the nonprofit’s wraparound programs designed to help local students stay on track for graduation.  The event, A Toast […]

In September 2018 students, family and friends gathered in Tallahassee on the campus of Florida Agricultural Mechanical University (FAMU) to celebrate the life of Jordan Thorne.  Jordan was a sophomore at FAMU and a native […]

For twenty years Publix Grocery store held a space at Gateway Shopping Center providing food options to the Brentwood community.  The 28,000 square feet of space was thought to be the saving grace for the […]

With January being National Mentoring Month, Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) recognized the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project (5000 RMOE). Since 2015, this project has empowered some of DCPS highest-need male students in elementary, […]

On New Year’s Day the Emancipation Proclamation Association celebrated the 157th year of the historical Lincoln- Douglas debate at Edward Waters College. The Lincoln–Douglas debates also known as The Great Debates of 1858 were a series of seven […]