Jacksonville will commemorate the 125th anniversary of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in 1900 with an upcoming week-long ...

We collaborated on many projects. Most notably in the fall of 1995, we produced “God’s Trombones” by James Weldon Johnson at the old Paul Robeson Center, directed by Larry Young. It was one ...

James Weldon Johnson, “God’s Trombones” Dr. Anthony Leach has joined the saints and ancestors. He was 73 and succumbed to cancer on Wednesday. Tony was a Penn State pioneer and an ...

Equity. Community. Justice. Moving. These are the four words Lowell Community Health Center Director of Learning and ...

Seven Negro Sermons in Verse” is a book of poetry born again as a theatrical production, a Christian musical with a 50-member ...

snared a Negro bard. It was the first Negro university to do so. Created especially for James Weldon Johnson (God’s Trombones, The Book of American Negro Spirituals) was the Adam K. Spence Chair ...

Finally, something worth putting your book down for! Authors and readers from around the country will gather at James Weldon Johnson Park on Saturday, January 25th for the JAX Urban Book Festival.

About an hour after fireworks were set off in downtown Jacksonville on New Year's Day, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says a shooting happened at James Weldon Johnson Park, which left a boy ...

A boy was shot in the leg early Wednesday morning when an argument erupted into gunfire at James Weldon Johnson Park, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. It’s the second time in two days ...