Blacksonville Community Network

11/04/2024

Jacksonville, OF Ms. - USA - The Miss Black Florida USA Scholarship Pageant is excited to announce its return in the fall of 2024 in the vibrant Tampa Bay area. This esteemed pageant celebrates the brilliance, diverse beauty, and limitless potential of Black women. Ms. Black Jacksonville USA,

Ms Michellita Taylor will vy for the crown as she presents her hometown Jacksonville. Michellita Taylor is competing in the Miss Black Florida USA pageant to empower African- American women by providing a platform that celebrates their unique experiences, voices, and beauty. In a time where representation matters more than ever, her participation highlights the importance of visibility and creating spaces that uplift and inspire Black women to thrive confidently in their identity.

Her platform is Thrive After Baby: A Journey to Emotional Well-being and an Empowering Mind.” This platform is aimed to inspire moms to feel strong, confident and optimistic while forming an unbreakable bond with their new baby as they navigate the profound changes in their mind and body during their new motherhood journey.

To say representation matters in this capacity is an understatement. rarely get the support, compassion and recognition they truly deserve for the adversarial challenges and encumbrances faced and triumphed each day. Most women are often inundated with attending to the affairs of their children, families and communities, often neglecting their own priorities and goals.

“Being a single mom to spicy three-year-old princess is incredible,” said Taylor. “I am competing in this pageant to show my daughter it is never too late to enhance your confidence, follow your dreams, and inspire others to do the same.”

Event Details:
● Date: November 9th and 10th
● Location: Pinellas Park, FL
● Divisions: Miss, Talented Teen, Mrs/Ms

The Miss Black Florida USA Scholarship pageant is a preliminary event to the Miss Black USA national competition. Women of a wide range of ages are encouraged to apply and participate in
this transformative experience.

For more information, to apply and/or donate, please visit the website for Miss Black Florida USA.

For interviews, or media inquiries, please contact:

Miss Black Florida USA Communications Chair
Janey Tate
[email protected]
786-853-4649

11/04/2024

11/03/2024

Life is all about those grand moments we share together. We cannot create them, we can together.

10/20/2024

"Authorities said at least seven people were killed Saturday when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the island's tiny community". SAVANNAH, Ga.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/20/us-news/georgia-police-chaplain-dr-charles-houston-identified-as-victim-killed-in-sapelo-island-dock-collapse/

He began his ministry service in 1976 when he was the pastor for Plains UMC and joined the city’s volunteer fire department.

10/18/2024

“More people will be able to share in this creation of future history,” Rogers said. “It will also enable the library to add these individual stories to our historical collections so that they can be accessed and preserved for posterity.”

Along with adding more memory stations, two staffers will be hired for the library’s Special Collections team. The Collection, which contains more than 1,000 documents and artifacts, will be expanded with more recordings of oral histories and the digitizing of more Black newspapers, church directories and other community materials.

https://jaxtoday.org/2024/01/10/library-will-expand-black-history-collection-with-1-million-grant/

10/15/2024

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10/15/2024

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10/14/2024

For , the has been a nightmare when it comes to economic justice. Have you tried to obtain a bonafide loan for your lately?

09/30/2024

On Friday, February 16, 2024, the Yale University Office of the President announced the release of the book Yale and Slavery: A History (Yale University Press, 2024). The book is a product of a three-year investigation undertaken by the Yale and Slavery Working Group and research project.

09/19/2024

Citing a risk to Jacksonville’s historic buildings by owners who either don’t bother to take care of the structures or deliberately let them deteriorate in order to skirt preservation regulations, the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission launched a task force to examine the issue.

The Task Force on Demolition by Neglect was established Sept. 10 with instructions to review city code provisions and solutions adopted by other cities, make recommendations to the commission on how to address the issue and consider methods to identify buildings at risk.

In the document creating the task force, the commission defines demolition by neglect as “the abandonment of a building or structure by the owner resulting in such a state of deterioration that its self-destruction is inevitable, or where demolition of the building or structure to remove a safety hazard is a likely result.”

https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2024/sep/18/task-force-to-examine-loophole-in-regulations-for-historic-properties/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFZEf9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHe-XzdNpJWm7PNLHz6eafki3Y5nnvUSYOJc29mFNThvZObxGJFvKPofDgA_aem_umPt29qFVEv-OVwpm2gPqg

The four-member panel will make recommendations on curbing “demolition by neglect.”