Year: 2026

Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood […]

by CHANDELIS R. DUSTER (NBC NEWS) Bethune-Cookman University graduates booed, turned their backs and walked out during Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ 22 minute commencement speech on Wednesday — all in an effort to make it […]

At a press conference held at Loretto Hospital, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-7th) Friday, said, “Hell no. We won’t go for the Trumpcare health plan and predicted the Senate will reject the House GOP version. […]

By Richard Rothstein   In The Color of Law (published by Liveright in May 2017), Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities […]

            BOSTON–New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain. Researchers using data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) found that people who drink sugary […]

6 Jordan Peele— photo courtesy of Universal Pictures UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF.–Jordan Peele, who wrote, produced and directed the hit movie “Get Out,” about a black man, who goes to meet his white girlfriend’s parents, continues […]

The 2017 March of Dimes, March for Babies walk was held last week at Jacksonville University. Walkers laced up their sneakers and came out to trek with thousands of supporters of the March of Dimes. […]

Four nursing students from Florida State College at Jacksonville were awarded scholarships at the annual Helen Bargeron’s Scholarship Luncheon, sponsored by, Chi Eta Phi, Sorority, Sigma Chapter. The recipients thanked the sorority for helping to […]