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Pan African educator, activist, psychologist, and motivational speaker Dr. Umar Johnson lectured to a packed house audience at the Scottish Rites Cathedral in Springfield. Dr. Johnson’s insights resonated deeply with the packed audience, addressing the urgent […]

By L. Jones – Jax Urban Book Festival (JUBF) organizer and self proclaimed ‘author groupie’ Natasha Slaughter is on a mission to reimagine books on the First Coast.  “Personally I’ve been a fan of authors […]

Author Rico Davis an alumni of Edward Waters College recently held a book signing at Red Gill Bistro on the Southside. Friends and family came out to support this long time Jacksonville resident whom you […]

Author Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” a book about a brutal reform school for black boys in the Jim Crow South, on Monday won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It is the second time in […]

by Lynn Jones Education has always been a passion of Dr. Barbara Ann Darby. The lifelong community servant moved to Jacksonville in 1972 and immediately began giving back to her new hometown. Throughout her years […]

By Felice Franklin – The People Reading for Inspiration, Discussion and Enjoyment (P.R.I.D.E.) Book club celebrated its’ 25th Anniversary at The Cook Book Restaurant in Springfield.  Local author Nikesha Elise Williams was the featured author […]

By Lynn Jones American author and convicted drug trafficker best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s was in Jacksonville promoting his book Freeway Rick […]

Jacksonville based author Nikesha Elise Williams held a book signing for her debut novel, Four Women, last weekend at WJCT studios.  Williams was joined by Ron Davis, a local activist and the father of slain […]

By Felice Franklin – The People Reading for Inspiration, Discussion and Enjoyment (P.R.I.D.E.) Book club, the city’s oldest book club serving people of color, celebrated its’ 24th Anniversary on Veterans Day.  Local author and retired Navy veteran […]