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Meet your 2021 Jacksonville Image Awards winners Published: Updated: Tags: The advertiser paid a fee to promote this sponsored article and may have influenced or authored the content. The views expressed in this article are those of the advertiser and do not necessarily reflect those of this site or affiliated companies. 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. ....
COMMENTARY | JAX Chamber president Daniel Davis raised $1.3 million in January for a political committee he controls, an unprecedented sum more than two years out from a 2023 Jacksonville mayoral race Davis has not yet formally announced a campaign for but is certain to join. The contributions come from a broad swath of establishment Republican donors, civic leaders and business owners many of whom backed current and term-limited Mayor Lenny Curry. Davis isn t saying anything about a campaign for the moment, but he doesn t have to: Money talks, and so does just about everyone else in town that Davis was gearing up to run and bagging huge contributions was a poorly kept secret. ....
Ending poverty in the city. Over the next three years, they founded the nonprofit LIFT JAX, hired a president and picked a place to start the historic Eastside and began ongoing conversations with residents. This year they are seeking funding and partnerships to get the work underway, using a model called Purpose Built Communities, which strengthens neighborhoods through mixed-income housing, cradle to grave education, community wellness and financial vitality for residents. Our goals are really the community’s goals, said LIFT JAX board chairman Darnell Smith, market president, North Florida Region for Florida Blue. Our job is to listen to what residents and community leaders tell us and then identify the partnerships and resources required to bring those desires to life. … We will never do work to a community, we will always do work with a community and the people who call that community home, have a business there or have a connection and de ....
Detroit man serving prison sentence for murder released after 1994 trial deemed unreliable By Associated Press Detroit man’s conviction tossed after trial deemed unfair, unreliable After more than 26 years in prison, a Detroit man was freed Thursday when a judge tossed out his conviction after deeming the trial was unreliable and unfair. DETROIT - A Detroit man who has spent 26 years in prison for murder will be released after authorities concluded that testimony at his 1994 trial was unreliable. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy won’t call it an exoneration for Larry D. Smith. But she said she’s very certain that the trial process was not just. ....
Isaiah Rumlin has come to expect calls from the media ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As head of the NAACP s Jacksonville branch, he got them again this year because for the third year in a row there will be separate citywide breakfasts to honor the slain civil rights leader where there used to be one. Friday the local NAACP will host the 34th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Empowerment Breakfast, while City Hall will have its 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast. Both will be virtual. A parade follows Monday in downtown Jacksonville. That s why for the past two years the NAACP decided to have its own breakfast rather than go downtown and shake hands for two hours at the city event, he said. And that s why the group will likely continue to host its own version in the future. ....