August 2026 – Page 927 – Jacksonville Free Press

American Idol Star Tyanna Jones Gives Back to Her Hometown Youth

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by K. Brooks The young and talented, top five American Idol contestant Tyanna Jones recently visited the Children’s Building at the I.M Sulzbacher Center. Her visit was welcomed with open arms as she brought donated […]

Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal

August 7, 2026 admin 0

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed the Obama administration a major victory on health care, ruling 6-3 that nationwide subsidies called for in the Affordable Care Act are legal. “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to […]

Min. Farrakhan Announces 20th Anniversary of Million Man March with Rally

August 7, 2026 admin 0

People of all faiths packed Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church this week as the Nation of Islam and organizers of the Million Man March announced that a rally will take place this October on the Mall […]

Burned NC Church May be Investigated as Hate Crime

August 7, 2026 admin 0

MEGHAN KENEALLY Digital Reporter Police are investigating whether a fire at a predominantly Black church in North Carolina is a hate crime, authorities have said. A blaze was reported at the Briar Creek Road Baptist […]

Support Grows for Taking Down Confederate Flag

August 7, 2026 admin 0

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans killed by a White supremacist at Emanuel A.M.E. Church […]

Rawlings-Blake Makes History as the First African-American Female President of U.S. Conference of Mayors

August 7, 2026 admin 0

San Francisco, CA – The presidential gavel was officially handed to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today by outgoing U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, appointing her head of the nonpartisan organization […]

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Month: August 2026

American Idol Star Tyanna Jones Gives Back to Her Hometown Youth

Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal

Min. Farrakhan Announces 20th Anniversary of Million Man March with Rally

Burned NC Church May be Investigated as Hate Crime

Support Grows for Taking Down Confederate Flag

Rawlings-Blake Makes History as the First African-American Female President of U.S. Conference of Mayors

Janet Jackson Drops “No Sleeep”: Listen to the Song!

Emmanuel AME and the Buoyancy of Hope

Left and Right Converge on Criminal Justice Reform

The Confederate Flag a Symbol of Racism in America – SC Take it Down