Year: 2026

The Jacksonville Community Remembrance Project recently held a soil collection ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the lynching of Benjamin Hart in Jacksonville. The lynching, one of thousands of crimes of racial terror designed to […]

Just in time for the opening of the school year, local members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. followed in the footsteps of their forefathers and came to the aid of the community. In the […]

The annual Ax Handle Saturday commemoration this year receive all of the due deserving fanfare in its 60th year. A special highlight was the designation of the former Hemming Plaza, now James Weldon Johnson Park, […]

New facility will create 500 new, full-time jobs in Duval County  – SEATTLE – (BUSINESS WIRE) – September 2, 2020 — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to expand its presence with a new fulfillment […]

By Terry Shropshire | September 2, 2020 | Multiplatinum and award-winning singer and producer Akon once said he took a self-imposed moratorium from the music industry in a magnanimous gesture to let others shine. While maybe partially […]

The official schedule for the upcoming presidential debates was released Wednesday, revealing when and where Joe Biden would square off against Donald Trump as the 2020 election rapidly approaches. But while those two will have three times to go at it, the […]

By Jesse Jackson – Lagging in the polls, Donald Trump has launched a campaign to discredit the upcoming election and disparage the United States Postal Service. He’s repeated the utterly baseless claim that voting by […]

On Sept. 2, 1963, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.

By David A Bell – A gripping biography of the leader of the slave revolt that led to Haiti’s independence, described as ‘the first black superhero of the modern age’ No figure from the 18th-century […]