{"id":550112,"date":"2026-01-28T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:13:09","slug":"5th-annual-uncf-mayors-masked-ball-in-jacksonville-to-support-edward-waters-university-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550112\/","title":{"rendered":"5th annual UNCF Mayor\u2019s Masked Ball in Jacksonville to support Edward Waters University \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The 2026 United Negro College Fund\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Masked Ball, which supports Edward Waters University, will take place on Friday, March 27 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Action News Jax anchor Shay Simon will emcee the event, which is happening at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">This gala supports UNCF\u2019s mission of investing in better futures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Civic leaders, alumni, dignitaries, volunteers and friends of UNCF and EWU are expected to attend, including event leadership Mayor Donna Deegan and President and CEO of Edward Waters University, A. Zachary Faison Jr., J.D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">More information on tickets and sponsorships can be found at the event website:<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/uncf.org\/jaxmmb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>uncf.org\/jaxmmb<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The 2026 United Negro College Fund\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Masked Ball, which supports Edward Waters University, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":550113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,241561,3188,723,7310,425,92506,77293,241560,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-550112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-edward_was_university","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-masked","15":"tag-shay_simon","16":"tag-uncf","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115975028975493465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}