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Community Joins Forces with Baptist Heath to Give Students a Healthy Start

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Hundreds of school children attended the Baptist Health Clinic and Wolfson Children’s Family and Youth back to school celebration. The ‘My Community is Healthy’ event was held at Ribault High School this past Saturday. Attendees […]

Jumbo Shrimp Weekend Includes Back to School Giveaways, Concert

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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 […]

EWC’s new president puts his money where his mouth is

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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’s Four Day Funeral Arrangements Planned

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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 […]

Former NFL Wide Receiver Randy Moss is on the Receiving End of Hate Mail About His Tie Tributing Slain Men

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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 […]

NASA Appoints First Black Female Deputy Director

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Black women are continuing to break barriers in the realm of STEM. NASA has announced that Vanessa Wyche has been appointed as the deputy director of their Johnson Space Center; making her the first African-American […]

We Are Breeding a New Generation of Civil Rights Fighters

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by J. Boney By Jeffrey L. Boney Without being given much direction, Black youth have seemingly taken matters into their own hands, relative to their future here in America, by strategizing, organizing and mobilizing. Whether […]

As Trump Distorts NFL players’ Messages, Let’s Instead Join Together

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by Jesse Jackson As teams gear up for the NFL season, President Trump is reviving his destructive and diversionary attacks aimed at turning fans against players. The league office stepped in it by unilaterally declaring […]

Trayvon Martin Documentary a Well Produced Reminder of Racial Challenges in America

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The “Rest in Power, The Trayvon Martin Story” aired on BET, and the documentary didn’t disappoint. For many African Americans Martin’s story was the beginning of a series of deaths of young unarmed black men […]

109th NAACP Annual Convention Closes with Call to Vote and to Increase Millennial Engagement

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By Lauren Poteat Thousands of people from across the country gathered in San Antonio, Texas for the 109th Annual NAACP Convention. The daring theme of this year’s convention (“Stop Hate, Vote”) was right on target, […]