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Our Vets Have Made the Ultimate Sacrifice – Even in the Face Inequality

November 7, 2017 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood Last weekend at a restaurant in Jacksonville’s overly teeming St. John’s Town Center, I heard two gentlemen talk about why they will no longer be watching NFL games anymore. The older white […]

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45 Makes George W. Bush Sound Oh So Eloquent

November 7, 2017 Staff 0

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux I never thought I would miss President George W. Bush, our 43rd president, and I’ve never much thought of him as a great, or even a good speaker; but the speech […]

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NFL Must “Provide a Better Platform” on Racism and Criminal Justice Reform

November 7, 2017 Staff 0

by Marc Morial “We want to make sure we are understanding what the players are talking about, and that is complex.” – National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick […]

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Accepting the Challenge to Ensure Future Leadership

November 7, 2017 Staff 0

By Dr. Ben Chavis I once asked the first African American billionaire, Reginald F. Lewis, what single word best defined the most determinative factor that led to his monumental financial success?  Mr. Lewis answered, “Preparation.”  […]

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Did the FBI Just Declare War on Black People?

October 24, 2017 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux While White men are beating Black men on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, while a “lone” White wolf is shooting people from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and while the word “terrorist” is […]

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Part Two: Is Jacksonville a Place that Young Black Professionals Can Thrive?

October 24, 2017 Staff 0

Finally, I get a chance to get back to the series that I wanted to focus on regarding young black professionals in Jacksonville. A few weeks ago I asked a simple question – is Jacksonville […]

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Are Child Support Laws Enforced Fairly

October 24, 2017 Staff 0

By Dorothy Inman-Johnson Deadbeat parent is a pejorative term for parents who fail to fulfill parental responsibilities to their children. However, the term is almost always used to describe fathers, though there certainly are deadbeat […]

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#STAYWOKE: Not Just a Hashtag…It’s a Movement

October 24, 2017 Staff 0

by Nallah Brown “Some of us woke while some stay snoozed.” These are the words of rapper Joey BadA$$ from his song off of his new album All-Amerikkkan Bada$$, entitled “Good Morning Amerikkka”, which covers […]

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The First 10 Things I Would Do as the Next President

October 16, 2017 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood Since we all have been dealing with so many serious issues, I wanted to lighten things up a bit. While I am extremely proud that Barack Obama was the first African American […]

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How to Put Puerto Rico Back on His Feet

October 16, 2017 Staff 0

What obligations do we owe one to another as Americans? What does patriotism and citizenship mean in practice? Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico has posed these questions. Americans should be dissatisfied with the way […]

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