Year: 2026

No. 11 from the rafters at Ribault. The Lady Trojans claimed the class 5A Championship after beating Bishop Moore-60-37 last weekend. head Coach Pennick was very emotional after the win and spoke of how much […]

By: Nikki Torian – Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Pi Eta Omega Chapter held its 29th Annual Prayer Brunch Saturday, February 13th,  at 9 a.m. at the Ramada Conference Center Mandarin.  The Reverend Dr. Marvin […]

JLOC MMM Clothes Give-a-Way Promotes Charity At Home – Jacksonville Local Organizing Committee, Millions More Movement Inc., a local non-profit organization “gave-a-way” clothes and served thousands of pounds of free food to the underserved people that came […]

Best-selling author Terry McMillan of “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” was the guest speaker at the 35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon in the Adam W. Herbert University […]

 Small business owners learned first-hand how to grow and improve their companies. The Jacksonville Urban League, NAACP Florida State Conference, the Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP, SCLC-Jacksonville Chapter and the National Association of Black Women […]

 The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission had a free dinner and celebration, Saturday, February 20, at IBEW Union Hall on Liberty Street. The event was the culmination of a week of hard work and activities remembering […]

Broadway Star with Hometown Roots Delight Baby Boomers – Opera luminary N’Kenge was the star of the show for the Jacksonville Symphony’s “Baby Boomers songs of the 60s”. The music of the baby boomers was among […]

By George E. Curry Media Columnist      Now that we have gotten the first two political anomalies out of the way en route to electing a new president – mostly White Iowa and New Hampshire – […]

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Nick Cocchi would like to be the sheriff of Hampden County, an Eastern Massachusetts county of half a million people. Springfield, Massachusetts, a city that is about 22 […]

“Freedom is never given; it is won,” said the great organizer and leader A. Phillip Randolph. Black history is a history of fighting for freedoms and recognitions that were once denied. If you walk into […]