In October 2021, ProPublica published a gutting and outrageous narrative of a juvenile court judge who oversaw a system that jailed children at extraordinary rates, and a county full of officials who collaborated or looked the other way. In one particularly egregious case that reporters Meribah Knight and Ken Armstrong found, several Black children were arrested Read More…
Black News Channel, the Florida-based TV news service whose majority stakeholder is Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, is shutting down. The company announced the news of its shut down on Friday shortly after telling employees that their paychecks would be delayed, the Los Angeles Times reports. Although the channel was shopped to several media companies Read More…
I am still hers. I am still hers. Its best to receive our African Ancestors as they appear. I’ve learned it’s best not to try to control how the memories of my mother show up, or what emotions they are wearing when they enter. This one is dressed in a rare crossbreed of inconsolable laughter Read More…
In Gainesville, over 1,000 community members came together to march through the city last summer. Many of them were students at the University of Florida, carrying on Gainesville’s significant legacy of student activism, dating back to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s. Since the Civil Rights Movement, groups of UF students and Read More…
Royal, a neighborhood just west of Wildwood in Sumter County — Royal, one of the oldest Black communities in the state, houses over 150 years of history. The grove of trees where Phillip James was born is just a few yards from where he sits now: the front lawn of the Wildwood house he’s called Read More…
Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and she was happy to live there for a few more years as Read More…
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