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By Sylvia Perry JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When abolitionist Frederick Douglass rose to speak on July 5, 1852, he did not come to celebrate America’s independence. He came to confront it. Standing before the Rochester Ladies’ […]

More than 75 years after four young Black men were wrongly accused in one of Florida’s most notorious racial injustice cases, state lawmakers have approved $4 million in compensation for their descendants as part of […]

  (Amsterdam News) Memorial day is a day that is set aside to honor those who fought in for the United States Military. As many headed out to the beach or maybe a family barbeque […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Black History Month marks its 100th anniversary this February, reaching the century mark at a time when how America teaches, funds and talks about Black history is once again at the center […]

**** Please note the White House sent out a proclamation regarding MLK Day at 8:15 PM By Sylvia Perry As the nation marked the 40th federal observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, […]

  by Sylvia Perry JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A brief exchange between longtime Jacksonville Free Press reporter Lynn Jones and Jaguars head coach Liam Coen following the team’s season-ending playoff loss has sparked a national debate […]

by Tannistha Sinha | Black media outlets across the country are preparing for what could be a new era of financial and editorial strain that will put survival to the test in the upcoming years.  With […]

The Harris-Walz campaign kicked off its “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour in Florida for their second stop in Jacksonville at IBEW Local 177 on Liberty Street.  Campaign representatives of the Harris-Walz campaign drove into […]

By Dr. Valerie Wardlaw Brunswick, Ga. – After more than 11 hours of deliberation and eight days of testimony, a nearly all-white jury in the seaside town of Brunswick, Ga., have brought back guilty verdicts […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up an appeal by a man convicted in the high-profile shooting death of a teen in a Jacksonville convenience-store parking lot in 2012. […]