Year: 2026

The National Urban Professional Baseball League (A Replica of Negro League Baseball) will be launching four new Urban Baseball League teams in the spring of 2018. Baseball in our inner-cities is dying and the NUPBL […]

On Saturday April 22, Christina Wilkerson celebrated her 50th birthday at Maceo Elk’s Lodge on W. Duval St. The evening was filled with music, dance and a violin solo by her daughter Megan. Headlining the […]

Over the weekend friends and family were invited to a Garden of Love celebration for Mrs. Jimmie Pearl Harper. Harpers 85th birthday was held at the Legends Center on the Northside. The highlight of the […]

The world renowned stage play Dreamgirls has been selling out shows at the Alhambra Dinner theaters. The musical details the dreams of three women bound for stardom, competing for their lives through adversity, trials, tribulations. […]

The MJ Live tour arrived in Jacksonville for a musical showcase highlighting the chart stopping career of Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five. The hit touring show featured all his biggest hits allowing audience members […]

By Lynn Jones –  The Beta Alpha Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., held their 12th annual Community Pearls Luncheon at Cubre Libra Restaurant attended by over 300 participants. Family members, friends and […]

by James Klingman Remember the scene from “New Jack City” when Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) told Scotty (Ice-T), “This ain’t personal; this is business?” And at the end of the movie, Scotty said to Nino, […]

by Reggie Fullwood I am as guilty as any other Generation X black male – I grew using the word “Nigga” or the “N” word as a term of endearment of sorts. No big deal […]

by Reggie Fullwood One of my grandmother’s favorite bible verses is from the Book of Luke, “To whom much is given, much will be required.” Pretty self explanatory, but it basically means that we are […]