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 For many young adults it is better to show them success versus simply talking about it.  Entrepreneurs like Oprah Winfrey and Madame CJ Walker are great examples of how hard work and fortitude build success.  […]

The Raines Vikings 4A Football Champions are still celebrating their December victory over the Cocoa Tigers. The back-to-back 4A state championships is a first for any Jacksonville public high school. This time, the honor came […]

The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens has been at the cultural center of Jacksonville’s art community for decades. The museum has consistently shown diversity showing local and national minority artists from various genres. Recently, […]

Death always leaves a void in a family, but the death of a child to unnecessary violence is often times so tragic that families never recover. A local nonprofit organization was formed just for that […]

by Lynn Jones Historically, Jacksonville has been a city of African American trailblazers. From James Weldon Johnson, who famously wrote the Negro national anthem with his brother to A. Phillip Randolph, the national labor and […]

High school students will receive all-expenses-paid trip to Disney to participate in coveted mentoring event in March with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE Magazine Walt Disney World Resort has revealed the 100 extraordinary youths from across […]

The history of Bethune Cookman University is centered on faith, hard work and commitment.  On October 3, 1904,, Mary McLeod Bethune, opened the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls with $1.50 and a […]

The Teach For America (TFA) organization says that it is “A community of change makers and coalition-builders. Leaders who teach, and teachers who lead. “  Some 10 years ago the organization opened its doors in […]