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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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 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

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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

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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

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Shown is Photographer Greg Miller putting his money where his mouth is in the day’s agenda of buying black! With the support of over 225 vendors at the Melanin Market Juneteenth Celebration, thousands of revelers from around the state and beyond trekked to the eastside of Jacksonville for the 6thContinue Reading