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The Duval County Public Schools is continuing to bolster its efforts and successes in improving the achievement levels and opportunities for minority boys with implementation of the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project – a […]
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 George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief After the Florida Republican-dominated state legislature failed to redraw Rep. Corrine Brown’s congressional district and seven others that had been gerrymandered to favor Republicans, a three-judge federal panel was […]
Fresh off their stop in Tallahassee Florida, The Tom Joyner Morning Show crew, Tom, Sybil and J made their way to Jacksonville, Florida! The TJMS breezed into town Thursday, August 13, for an early happy […]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, immediate past board chairman of the NAACP, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and co-founder of the […]
The Edward Waters College (EWC) Schell Sweet Community Resource Center recently hosted a celebration in honor of Ms. Bertha Adams 100th birthday. Adams was among the first group of seniors to join the first fitness […]
In 1976, approximately 80 black pilots were employed by the nation’s major and commuter passenger airlines and freight carriers. By 1986 that number had risen to nearly 400, and today the total is estimated to […]
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