Month: August 2026

by Reggie Fullwood For the past half dozen election cycles, Republicans have “said” that they want to attract more blacks to their party. It’s almost like that strange schoolmate that you rarely even said hello […]

By Oscar H. Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist Among the many windswept cliffs that stand guard on the shores of the island of Okinawa, one is known for its particularly gruesome history. “Suicide Cliff” is located […]

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist You can run, but you can’t hide from racism. I was preparing to write a column on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade agreement that President Barack Obama wants to […]

Duval County Public School Educational Benefits Representative Antoine Mickle is always on the lookout for young men to mentor. After communicating with Timucuan Elementary school Principal Darrell Perry, Mr. Mickle began mentoring students at Timucuan […]

First Timothy Baptist Church Girl Scout Troop 1123 and 1124 were all smiles at the Jacksonville premier of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, […]

On Friday October 9, at 4 p.m. in the evening, Jacksonville Local Organizing Committee of the Millions More Movement Inc., sponsored a luxury bus cruiser and departed from the Norwood Shopping Center and headed to […]

SNP Ambassador and Celebrity Chef Gina Neely Promote National Seafood Month – The Seafood Nutrition Partnership (SNP) on Thursday, October 8th in Hemming Plaza launched a national three-year public health education campaign and white paper […]

Last week the Eureka Gardens complex located on the Westside of Jacksonville made headlines throughout the city as a spectacle of code enforcement officials converged on the apartment community. Eureka Garden apartment residents have been […]

Sometimes two unprecedented movements cannot survive at the same time. One has to precede the other. The Civil Rights Movement paved the way for other humanitarian movements around the world – including the ending of […]

Comedian Wanda Sykes will have a multi-episode stint as Daphne Lido, the now ex-wife of Stevens & Lido founding partner. In the divorce, she gains control of half of the company that Dre (Anthony Anderson) […]