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The city of Jacksonville will be celebrating and recognizing women veterans this week. The week kicked off with a ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday at City Hall as Mayor Lenny Curry proclaimed the week Women Veterans Recognition Week, acknowledging that it was the last proclamation he would make as theContinue Reading

Bernarda Pera could not win a single game on her serve Monday as she was eliminated in straight sets in the fourth round of the French Open. Facing seventh-seeded Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, the unseeded American was broken eight times on Court Philippe Chatrier and lost 6-3, 6-1. Jabeur wonContinue Reading

The first words from Rose Zhang after the 20-year-old Californian capped off one of the more remarkable 13-day stretches in golf were telling. “What is happening?” she said. More tantalizing is what happens next. Hype rules the day in a society built around social media, and Zhang is one ofContinue Reading

Clinical trials advance medicine, but the National Institutes of Health says that more than half of studies are unable to recruit or retain the necessary research participants, which can exacerbate health disparities. However, in recent years, digital technologies have helped trials become more accessible and inclusive. Clinical trials are moving out of traditionalContinue Reading

THE AFRO — By Ralph E. Moore Jr., The Moore Report | The AFRO American News – via The Afro – The Negro League Family Alliance (NLFA) is calling on Major League Baseball (MLB) to establish May 2 as annual “Negro League Day” in all 30 Major League Baseball parksContinue Reading

By Dwight Brown Entertainment Critic for DwightBrownInk.com and NNPA News Wire – She started off with a bang! The 2023 Blue Note Jazz Festival takes place all over New York City, May 31st to July 2nd. From the Blue Note’s iconic Greenwich Village jazz club (Ron Carter’s Foursight Quartet) toContinue Reading

By Lucius Gantt – Recently, I was sitting in the lobby of an Atlanta hospital waiting for a friend to come out of surgery when an elderly white man sat down in a chair next to mine.       He seemed like a nice guy. We chatted for a little whileContinue Reading

Today will be mostly sunny with patchy fog, and a few pop up showers to contend with. The chance of showers will average 10-20 percent. Viewers will wake up to temperatures in the 60s for SE GA, 60s to low 70s for NE FL. We’re predicting afternoon highs in theContinue Reading

A 19-year-old passenger died Sunday evening when a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old flipped on the I-95 north off-ramp to International Golf Parkway, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The driver and a 14-year-old passenger suffered minor injuries. All three were wearing seat belts, according to the report. They areContinue Reading