Meet your 2021 Jacksonville Image Awards winners
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After months of anticipation, the wait finally came to an end as we revealed the winners of the 2021 Jacksonville Image Awards presented by the Porter Firm.
Our winners of these annual awards, which recognize remarkable achievements in Jacksonville’s African American community, range from a lifelong family services provider to a teacher who’s done more than his part to put books in schools to an up-and-coming musical artist who recently dropped her debut single.
After months of watching civil rights demonstrations through the country and on the streets of Jacksonville at times even participating themselves the students were surprised when in February the school district didn t seize the opportunity to use Black History Month as an education tool to drive lessons about local racial justice movements and Black history.
Instead, the school district launched its own inaugural month-long campaign for mental health and suicide awareness called You Matter Month. While that campaign had its own issues because it encouraged students to #TakeOffYourMask during a global pandemic, some students worried the language minimized Black Lives Matter campaigns and hijacked the attention from the sole month annually centered around Black lives.
Fort Caroline Middle School students will start their day Thursday by logging onto their computers.
The school announced Wednesday that it would switch to online instruction until Monday, citing multiple COVID-19 cases. Because of the number of recent cases and the impact on our school, we will transition all students to online instruction through Duval HomeRoom, Principal Chelvert Wellington told families. My team and I stand ready to help make this transition as smooth as possible.
Duval County Public Schools has closed schools and transitioned them to temporary virtual instruction before. The district uses a 20 percent impact threshold to determine when the switch to online learning should happen. That threshold measures how many students and faculty are impacted by COVID-19 exposures not necessarily that 20 percent are COVID-19 positive.
Jacksonville private school pivots to distance learning over uptick in COVID-19 cases
Students will learn from home until Feb. 22, school administrators say
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Cedar Creek Christian School located at 1372 Lane Ave S, Jacksonville, FL 32205 (Copyright 2021 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A small, private school in Jacksonville moved all of its roughly 280 K-12 students to a distance learning format until Feb. 22 in response to an outbreak of COVID-19.
Cedar Creek Christian School notified students’ families Tuesday.
“Fortunately, so far, it has only been three people that have tested positive,” CCCS administrator Lisa Pearson told News4Jax. “We are such a small school, we don’t want to take any chances that it spreads.”
Grammy award-winning drummer from Jacksonville helps transform lives on the First Coast
Making History Today: The two-time Grammy-winning trailblazer has played drums for Kurt Elling, pushing the boundaries of Black artistry. Author: Brooks Baptiste (First Coast News) Published: 5:30 AM EST February 4, 2021 Updated: 7:04 AM EST February 4, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington are just a few Black artists who played a pivotal role in making jazz music a global phenomenon.
Now, Ulysses Owens Jr. s unique sound adds to the musical landscape.
While climbing up the ranks, his rhythm and beat continue to transform lives.