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By Janine Rubenstein – The Oscar-winner and powerhouse singer opens up about the role of a lifetime, portraying her idol in the highly anticipated upcoming biopic. Not many actors can say they were hand-picked by an icon to […]

This day in regional history. JUNE 22, 1924 Judson Lyons, a courtroom and political pioneer, died this day after a lifetime of achievement. Born in the Augusta area before the outbreak of the Civil War, […]

By Hazel Campbell-Yates – Eleven of Jacksonville’s highest ranking African-American students from Duval County Public Schools were recently awarded Gamma Beta Boule scholarships for academic excellence. This year would have been Gamma Beta Boule’s 36th […]

By Alison Fox – As Disney World prepares to open next month, the Happiest Place on Earth is introducing a reservation-based system aimed at reducing crowds and making it easier to enforce social distancing. Disney […]

By Derek Major- Several descendants of women who played “Aunt Jemima” are speaking out against the Quaker Oats food company’s decision to rebrand its Aunt Jemima breakfast line. According to The Blaze, Larnell Evans Sr. believes […]

by Dana Givens – The spread of COVID-19 has severely impacted marginalized and underserved communities. In numerous cities like New Orleans and Milwaukee, Black neighborhoods saw increasingly high rates of cases due to pre-existing conditions […]

By Lynn Jones – The Circle of Caring is making their way through city streets with fresh food deliveries to seniors, homeless and the sick and shut in that reside in the urban core zip […]