Community

Funding for arts education can be volatile despite its benefits to students. Locally the Jacksonville Arts & Music School (JAMS) is tackling this issue by providing local children in underserved areas with arts education and […]

As part of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp’s salute to Black History Month and the Negro Leagues’ Centennial Celebration, the club hosted the inaugural High School Heritage Classic exhibition game between rivals William M. Raines High […]

The community continues to mourn the loss of a young man taken too soon. Jordan Davis was a 17-year-old high school student when he was murdered for playing his music “too loud”. On what would […]

Local organizations united to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Black National Anthem “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” by Jacksonville’s very own James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson. Held at he Ritz Theater and […]

The Live Long and Like It Senior Citizens Club was organized January 1970 at the Emmett Reed Center and under the direction of Anne Hedgecloth of the Jacksonville Recreation Department. The purpose of the club […]

The first three months can make you or break you as a professional who is entering the job market, or changing from one organization to another. Congratulations, you got the job. Now all eyes are […]

by Carla Jones  and Karen Varga-Sinka – I’m A Star Foundation and 100 Black Men of Jacksonville have partnered together to operate the new 100 STARS Teen Center on Moncrief Road. The Center will offer […]

Communities In Schools of Jacksonville (CIS) raised more than $170,000 at its 30th anniversary gala to benefit the nonprofit’s wraparound programs designed to help local students stay on track for graduation.  The event, A Toast […]

January 25, 2020 kicked off Wellness RX in New Town Success Zone. Wellness RX, a community led wellness programming effort to educate families, empower the community to develop healthier habits and encourage personal goals, celebrated […]

In September 2018 students, family and friends gathered in Tallahassee on the campus of Florida Agricultural Mechanical University (FAMU) to celebrate the life of Jordan Thorne.  Jordan was a sophomore at FAMU and a native […]