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When we hear about gang plagued cities filled with violence, we usually think of northeastern areas. Jacksonville however got a rude awakening last weekend beginning with a high school football game at Raines High School […]

Just days before the critical August Florida Primaries, The Student Government Association of Edward Waters College (EWC) in collaboration with the Gillum for Governor campaign hosted a “Be The Vote” rally. The event featured famed […]

ImpactJAX, the young professional’s organization of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, recently held their inaugural small business vendor fair at the Beaver Street Enterprise Center.  Vendors and business owners filled the auditorium with information packets, […]

This past weekend, the national sorority Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., Alpha Gamma Chapter hosted its annual officers and members retreat at Jacksonville’s Double Tree Hotel on the riverfront.  Maggie Jones, organization’s immediate past First Vice […]

When firefighters escorted me out of our home at age seven, I had know idea it had to do with my mother going up against the almost entirely white wealthy political establishment.  What turned out to […]

Jumbo Shrimp Minor League team opened with a postgame concert on top of the first-base dugout at Family Faith Night at the Baseball Grounds near TIAA Stadium. Headlining outside of the dugout was Christian musical […]

One of the primary roles of a college president is to raise money for their institutions.  The new president of Edward Waters College joins in that tradition by leading the charge.  Recently, Dr. A. Zachary Faison, […]

Aretha Franklin By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Aretha Franklin, who died last week, will lie in repose August 28th and 29th at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. The public […]

Randy Moss, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, says he received hate mail for wearing a tie with names of black men and women shot to death by police or died […]