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JLOC MMM Clothes Give-a-Way Promotes Charity At Home – Jacksonville Local Organizing Committee, Millions More Movement Inc., a local non-profit organization “gave-a-way” clothes and served thousands of pounds of free food to the underserved people that came […]

David Manor, one of East Jacksonville’s most well known and beloved seniors, was honored by his daughter, Davida Manor Ward, M.D., at a celebration of his 80th birthday last Saturday at the Doubletree Hilton Hotel.   […]

Best-selling author Terry McMillan of “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” was the guest speaker at the 35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon in the Adam W. Herbert University […]

The Durkeeville Historical Society (DHS) paid tribute to aeronautical pioneer Bessie Coleman with a historical marker placed at the 1926 plane crash site near where Paxon Middle School stands today. The marker was erected at […]

NNOA Jacksonville Chapter Positively Impacts Students at Brentwood Elementary School – During Brentwood Elementary School of the Arts Literacy Week, National Naval Officers Association (NNOA) Jacksonville Chapter members Lieutenant Commander Tim Campbell, a Navy pilot […]

The Duval County Retired Educators Association held their Annual Multicultural Celebration at the Mary Singleton Senior Center on February 4th.  The theme for the program was “Capturing Our Past, Preserving Our Future”.  The annual program […]

Annual through Our Eyes 2016: Sensory Perception Exhibit – The Ritz Museum, Through Our Eyes 2016: Sensory Perception, an annual exhibit presented continuously since 1993, the creative muse of museum curator Lydia Stewart, the exhibit is […]

by Lynn Jones The Ritz Museum, Through Our Eyes 2016: Sensory Perception, an exhibit by African-American artists, has been presented continuously since 1993, The creative muse of museum curator Lydia Stewart, the exhibit is comprised […]

Jacksonville residents Marcus Johnson, Diallo Sekou and Ishmael A. Muhammad recently trekked to Flint, Michigan to assist residents for the #operationflint water crisis. Working under the banner of The Kemetic Empire/Urban Geoponics, the young men […]

Jacksonville, FL – The 100 Black Men of Jacksonville, Inc. (J100) hosted their 12th Annual Infinite Scholar College Fair, January 16, 2016 at the Schultz Center. The event featured about 30 National, Regional, and local […]