Month: August 2026

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to advance the bipartisan Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018, historic legislation that would criminalize lynching, attempts to lynch, and conspiracy to lynch for the first time […]

Frustrated by three years of failed attempts to fight legislative actions deemed unfriendly to teachers, Florida Education Association members ousted the group’s leadership team in favor of challengers who pledged to “rebuild our power and […]

For African Americans, entrepreneurship has always been important as many Blacks struggled to find jobs after slavery and during the segregation era. Madame CJ Walker, is known as the first Black millionaire. She once said, […]

The Black Effect Brunch, hosted by Dr. Shari Calicker, MD and Sophia Bernard, Esq. of “The Huxtabelles, was held on October 13th at the Casa Marina Hotel in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Twenty-five young professional women […]

Dining Experience Dialogue Engages Culture Differences and Tradition  “Community Suppers,” an initiative that OneJax and the Jacksonville Chamber are currently occurring throughout Jacksonville. The causal randomly organized dinners consist of a  small group of local […]

By Jeroline D. McCarthy – African American men have always been the foundations of the Black family, but that very foundation is often times under attack from various sources.  The Black church has historically been […]

Fellowship, education and transforming lives have always been guiding principals for the national sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. (NSPDK) is a nonprofit, educational sorority founded by eight educators desiring to establish a sisterhood among […]

By William Jackson – For African Americans, entrepreneurship has always been important as many Blacks struggled to find jobs after slavery and during the segregation era.  Madame CJ Walker, is known as the first Black […]