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Thanks to a crime reduction grant from the City of Jacksonville, a local community center is enabling citizens alternative activities in a community plagued by violence and crime. Located off Moncrief Road, the Simonds Johnson […]

By Alisha Gaines, Florida State University | The Conversation | Word In Black | Sacramento Observer | SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Three years after hearing George Floyd cry “Mama” so desperately that it brought a country out of […]

Jacksonville residents showed up and showed out for the Black Excellence Fest formerly known as the Black Expo, over a four-day confab of community connections in health awareness, generational wealth, entrepreneurship and job creation.  The festival […]

A. Phillip Randolph Blvd was packed with Jax Melanin Market Juneteenth revelers excited to celebrate the spirit of freedom. The vendor filled marketplace welcomed hundreds of friends, family and community neighbors excited to participate in […]

Holding court for 76 years in the Northside”s Cleveland Road community, the James Weldon Johnson YMCA held their annual family reunion bringing together generations who have made the beloved institution a family legacy.  Family, friends […]

Cooling Centers Activated on June 26 After Three Consecutive Days with a Heat Index of 108°F-112°F –  JACKSONVILLE, Florida, June 26, 2024 – The City of Jacksonville unveiled its 2024 Cooling Center Contingency Plan, called “Stay […]

BALTIMORE, MD. – The Atlanta Voice earned six awards for journalistic excellence at this year’s National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Messenger Awards, which took place at the Four Seasons Baltimore. The annual awards took place on Thursday […]

  For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities throughout the country. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — […]