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As I sat in one of Jacksonville’s newest downtown jazz spots, Breezy, for brunch with a young man that I have mentored since middle school, we talked about a number of topics centering on politics […]

The 100 Black Men of Jacksonville, Inc. (J100), Florida Blue and the Jaguars Foundation kick off National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month by partnering for the launch the “Men Tackling the Big C” Prostate Cancer Awareness and Education […]

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Hurricane Harvey did everything people said it would do, and more.  It either drowned or swallowed everything it touched in Corpus Christi, Houston, Beaumont, the gulf coast of Louisiana, and a […]

Baptist Health offered preventive health screenings to more than 500 women who gathered for Girls’ Day Out, a day of wellness for women. The one-day conference took place over the weekend and is co-presented by […]

The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp celebrated Labor Day with 18 local unions being honored at the baseball field for their contributions enabling workers to negotiate for higher wages and benefits and improve conditions in the workplace. The unions were […]

Sixty-two years ago on August 28, Carolyn Bryant Donham, a White woman, told a lie that got a fourteen year-old boy killed. The 62nd anniversary comes just days after the nation witnessed racial terror inCharlottesville, Virginia, […]

Written By Adrian Moore, GlobalGrind Staff Jay-Z‘s “4:44″ album is arguably his most personal project to date. Along with music, Hov has released music videos, short documentaries called “footnotes,” as well as a detailed interview on Rap Radar’s podcast. […]

S By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Bill Cosby has hired former Michael Jackson attorney Tom Mesereau to lead his defense team going into the November retrial of the comedian’s sexual assault case. Mesereau, […]

by Tray Connor (NBC) For the first time in 19 months, Florida has executed a prisoner — a white man accused of racially motivated murder — using a lethal injection formula. Authorities say 53-year-old Mark […]