Members of the Jacksonville community gathered at the Duval County Courthouse for the unveiling of the historic plaque honoring the late Attorney Daniel Webster Perkins. Perkins is notably the first Black lawyer to be allowed to select white jurors in Jacksonville, Florida and one of the first African-Americans admitted intoContinue Reading
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
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
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
Just a few years after coming to the United States from the Philipines as a 17-year-old in 1995, Jojo Hernandez was at a crossroads. Hernandez came to the country with dreams of being a pilot, but he soon started working as a dishwasher at Naval Station Mayport. He later gotContinue Reading
A Senate committee grilled top executives of three major pharmaceutical companies Thursday, asking why Americans are paying more for prescription drugs than other countries? Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders said Merck charges diabetes patients $6,900 for Januvia when that exact same product can be purchasedContinue Reading
We’re continuing our series on Severe Weather Awareness Week to help you understand the weather phenomena that affect us here in Florida. Thursday’s focus is on hurricanes and flooding. Specifically, why does Florida get so many hurricanes? and what makes them so dangerous? Florida is surrounded by warm water andContinue Reading
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
Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a press conference at the Florida State Fair in Tampa on Thursday at 12:25 p.m. Press play above to watch liveContinue Reading
A local restaurant that’s been a favorite to many Jacksonville residents for almost two decades has closed its doors for good. Customers arriving at the Burrito Gallery in Downtown Jacksonville were met with a locked front door and covered windows Wednesday. A sign taped to the door thanked the restaurant’sContinue Reading
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