August 2026 – Page 553 – Free Press of Jacksonville

Volunteers Distribute Fruits and Vegetables to Food Desert Residents

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By Lynn Jones – The Circle of Caring is making their way through city streets with fresh food deliveries to seniors, homeless and the sick and shut in that reside in the urban core zip […]

Weeks Later and Residents Still Showing Black Lives Still Matter

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Pastors, non-profits and members of the Jacksonville Faith Based Coalition held a Black Lives Matter peaceful protest from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) headquarters on Bay Street to the County Courthouse located on Adams Street. […]

Local Women Create a United Front for Black Women Business Matter

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by Lynn Jones – The owner of Kayla Mill Boutique had a vision to assemble successful entrepreneurs and career women for a Duval Black Women United photo shoot to illustrate to the community that there […]

Jennifer Hudson on Playing Aretha Franklin in New Film Respect: ‘It Still Feels Like She’s in Me’

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By Janine Rubenstein – The Oscar-winner and powerhouse singer opens up about the role of a lifetime, portraying her idol in the highly anticipated upcoming biopic. Not many actors can say they were hand-picked by an icon to […]

Report: Cam Newton’s Patriots Contract Terms Include Only $550K Guaranteed

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By MIKE CHIARI – The New England Patriots are reportedly taking on very little risk when it comes to the one-year contract they signed quarterback Cam Newton to this week. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Newton will earn a […]

Trump To African Americans: ‘If You Don’t Understand Your History, You Will Go Back To It’

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by Derek Major – President Donald Trump told Fox & Friends co-host, Brian Kilmeade, during a Sunday night special, his message to African Americans is “you have to learn” about “your historyAccording to Salon, Trump made […]

Let Us Heed the Words of Frederick Douglass on the Emancipation Memorial

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By Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, National President, Association for the Study of African American Life and History – If Frederick Douglass could see the controversy over the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. today, […]

Lets Not Turn Black Lives Matter Into Black Lives Marketing

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by Tiffany Hogan – In the last couple of weeks with the fallout from the brutal and senseless police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others, companies in retail, advertising, technology, media, entertainment, […]

British Scientists Begin COVID-19 Vaccination Trials In South Africa And Brazil

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On Wednesday, residents in South Africa and Brazil volunteered to begin the testing of a COVID-19 vaccination trial developed by the University of Oxford in Britain. The trials are starting in South Africa because it […]

Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis

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NNPA NEWSWIRE —By Dr. Lucille Ridgill – One major reason Black people suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s is we are underrepresented in dementia research, in part because many of us are unwilling to donate our brains […]