Journalism
25 Years Strong: The ZORA! Festival 2014
Click link below to read ebony.com feature http://www.ebony.com/black-history/25-years-strong-the-zora-festival-987#axzz2pOvxnRZC 25 Years Strong: The ZORA! Festival An eclectic Black arts gathering, this 2014 literary festival should rank high on your New Year’s Must-Do List By Penny Dickerson 25 Years Strong: The ZORA! Festival The incomparable Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God is the most notably […]
Congresswoman Corrine Brown: Determined to Deliver
Link to article http://www.flcourier.com/metro/4628-determined-to-deliver
State Representative Reggie Fullwood: Focused on Community
Click link below to read full website copy http://flcourier.com/2012/07/12/fullwood-focused-on-community/ Thank you to State Representative Reggie Fullwood for offering his perspective, insights, and political experiences during two interviews: the first was February 2011 and final notes compiled in a July 2012 culminated in the following profile published July 12, 2012 in the Florida Courier. Rarely is […]
The N.B. Forrest Rebel Brigade Reunion
The occasion of the Nathan B. Forrest Rebel Brigade Band Reunion was held last evening, June 21, 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel (Deer Creek) in Jacksonville, Florida @ 7:00 p.m. It was a culmination of years of murmurs, suggests, ideas, non-ideas, and finally, band members Russ Carpenter and Leonor Diaz took the helm as leaders […]
Jacksonville Film Festival 2011
What a wonderful weekend I had covering the Jacksonville Film Festival. In all fairness, yes, the additions of the African American films (and their producers and featured actresses) were last minute additions, but we made the best of Friday thru Sunday, and I’m grateful to the Gods of journalism that I was able to “capture” […]
September 11, 2001: A ten year reflection
This is a re-posting of my 9/11 ten year anniversary blog. There are some things worth hoarding, and this commemorative 9/11 magazine is one that I’m glad I held onto. I tend to keep things, always thinking: “I’m going to need this one day.” I never gave thought that ten years following the most horrific […]
Penny Dickerson 