T. Ellison of TEllison Fashion House The Northside Lifting Our Various Enterprises (L.O.V.E) event promotes and uplifts black businesses in Duval County.  Held on the Northside on Soutel Drive adjacent to the Bob Hayes Legends center, the event supports over 150 black-owned businesses and non-profits.  Established in 2013, the market is freeContinue Reading

Operations Manager, Briana Ardley (Englewood High School); Customer Relationship Manager, William Johnson (Bishop Snyder High School); Financial Director, James Latimore (Chatman High school); Inventory Manager, Mykeshia Edwards (Lakeshore Middle School); Marketing Director, Layla Nelson (Jean Ribault High School) and Online Sales Director, Larrae Wells (Jean Ribault High School). By V. Dunbar – Duval County middle and high school students are receiving the rareContinue Reading

Left, Attorney Mutaqee Akbar, Rev. RB Holmes and Rick Hoye are mobilizing to stop the rewriting of Florida’s Black history curriculum. BY GINA JACKSON, Contributor TALLAHASSEE — The repeated assaults on civil rights norms and attempts to rewrite the Black history curriculum has triggered a sharp increase in mobilization acrossContinue Reading

By Dr. Adora Obi Nweze, President, Florida State Conference NAACP  Governor Ron DeSantis is running hard on racism. It is the central message of his presidential campaign filled with a hate speech platform patterned after the White supremacy segregationists of the 1950s and 60’s. It is a stunning reproduction ofContinue Reading

Today, Truist Foundation announced a $225,000 grant to Rethreaded, a nonprofit focused on breaking the cycle of generational trauma for sex trafficking survivors by providing them with employment, career development and supportive services. Rethreaded will use the grant funds to create a training program within the various systems that survivors encounter while in aContinue Reading

by Elaine Bowen The Negro League Baseball’s triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century are highlighted in this film that includes the League’s deep ties to Chicago. Sam Pollard The story is told through previously unearthed archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with legendary players like JoshContinue Reading

 Supreme Court Justices (source: The Supreme Court) by Vernon Williams Forget the war in Ukraine. The Supreme Court and those anxious to turn back the hands on the clock of progress have openly declared war against Black America with a string of state legislative setbacks and high court decisions thatContinue Reading

NNPA NEWSWIRE —  NNPA Newswire Contributor Lauren Victoria Burke – The 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court will alter college admissions policies. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing the opinion for the majority, said the programs “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner” and “involve racial stereotyping,” inContinue Reading

NNPA NEWSWIRE —  Stacy M. Brown By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent – In a one-on-one interview with the Black Press of America, Kennedy spoke about his relentless focus on combating environmental racism, ending qualified immunity for law enforcement officers, and addressing the alarming racial disparities withinContinue Reading