Staff ReportsOctober 29, 2020
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The money will fund efforts to help unemployed Floridians land new jobs.
Tag: Urban League
Staff ReportsOctober 29, 2020
Kelly HayesAugust 25, 2020
3min398
AT&T is the first member of the group's Chairman's Club, the highest level of membership.
A.G. GancarskiJuly 29, 2019
5min669
Republicans and Democrats unite here.
Jacob OglesDecember 19, 2018
6min420
Ensuring Florida’s economic growth benefits minority communities and those impacted by generational poverty must be a focus of Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, according to former Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford. That will involve boosting education opportunities in all communities and finding innovative ways to increase access to capital for Sunshine State residents, he said. The issue […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 20, 2017
3min418
There were rumblings last week that some civil rights leaders in Jacksonville were unhappy with the yearly Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast. This week, there is written confirmation. A letter in the mailbox of Mayor Lenny Curry from Jacksonville NAACP President Isaiah Rumlin let it be known that while the NAACP, the SCLC, and the Urban League […]
Mitch PerryJuly 8, 2015
5min584
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in Tampa on Wednesday that U.S. financial giant J.P. Morgan Chase has agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement over its collection and sale of credit-card debt. The bank agreed to pay $4.6 million in restitution to more than 5,000 customers in Florida, with an additional $1.6 million going to […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 14, 2015
8min359
It hasn’t been a great February for Rand Paul, but the GOP presidential candidate bypassed any mention of vaccines or his (lack of) college degrees in a speech in Sarasota on Saturday afternoon, and instead went after Hillary Clinton. Speaking inside an airplane hanger at Dolphin Aviation, the Kentucky Senator spent a solid chunk of his 20-minute address blasting the former […]