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Members of the Chi Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. at Edward Waters College will continue their water drive for Flint, Michigan residents Wednesday, March 2nd on the Centennial Lawn from 11:00 a.m. […]

Best-selling author Terry McMillan of “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” was the guest speaker at the 35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon in the Adam W. Herbert University […]

David Manor, one of East Jacksonville’s most well known and beloved seniors, was honored by his daughter, Davida Manor Ward, M.D., at a celebration of his 80th birthday last Saturday at the Doubletree Hilton Hotel.   […]

JLOC MMM Clothes Give-a-Way Promotes Charity At Home – Jacksonville Local Organizing Committee, Millions More Movement Inc., a local non-profit organization “gave-a-way” clothes and served thousands of pounds of free food to the underserved people that came […]

 The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission had a free dinner and celebration, Saturday, February 20, at IBEW Union Hall on Liberty Street. The event was the culmination of a week of hard work and activities remembering […]

Broadway Star with Hometown Roots Delight Baby Boomers – Opera luminary N’Kenge was the star of the show for the Jacksonville Symphony’s “Baby Boomers songs of the 60s”. The music of the baby boomers was among […]

  For over a year author Meltonia Young gathered information regarding the Underground Railroad that runaway slaves used to travel south to freedom for her newly published book The Journey South to Freedom. The author […]

The Durkeeville Historical Society (DHS) paid tribute to aeronautical pioneer Bessie Coleman with a historical marker placed at the 1926 plane crash site near where Paxon Middle School stands today. The marker was erected at […]

Jacksonville residents Marcus Johnson, Diallo Sekou and Ishmael A. Muhammad recently trekked to Flint, Michigan to assist residents for the #operationflint water crisis. Working under the banner of The Kemetic Empire/Urban Geoponics, the young men […]