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American Legion Post 197 held their annual ‘Your Health Matters’ community family event at their Northside campus. The free services included health screenings, free covid/flu shots, prostate health education and a nutritional panel.  Serving nutritional dish samples, registrants walked away understood nutritional plans, contents, ingredients and preparing healthy meals forContinue Reading

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Laughter and the smell of wood-fire bbq smoke filled the air for the fourth annual Feeding Northeast Florida’s’ Bourbon & Brisket fundraiser held at Strings Sports Brewery in Springfield. Patrons joined volunteers from all over Duval County to support the region’s largest food bank that provides high-quality food for thoseContinue Reading

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Business leaders, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, sororities/fraternities and community activists were in attendance for the Fifth Annual Jacksonville Image Awards. The formal attire event invited winners to take the stage inside the Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts center at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s South. The Jacksonville Image Awards were created to honor andContinue Reading

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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 need for mentors that understand the educational prominence within our black children. Highlighting the lectureContinue Reading

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By Dwight Brown Film Critic for DwightBrownInk.com – NNPA News Wire – At a young age, Luther Vandross knew music was his calling and there could be no other day job. Vandross: “I really don’t want a plan B. It’s going to be this or I’m going to be 80Continue Reading

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Some of us have a tendency to do it alone. There’s a sense of triumph that accompanies the phrase “I did that.” But doing it alone can also be a lonely and unsuccessful path. That is especially true in fundraising. Here’s our anti-dote to the fundraising blues: build a team.Continue Reading

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by Donnell Suggs –  On a cold Tuesday afternoon, a group of 15 people walked up to the front window of the Madam C.J. Walker Museum. Located on Hilliard Street, just a block down Auburn Avenue from Ebenezer Baptist Church, the museum is a regular stop on tours through theContinue Reading