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…
As NFL fans were gearing up to see the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams play in the Super Bowl, they also learned that the league was facing a lawsuit alleging racism, discrimination and other unethical actions. It was filed on Feb. 1 in Manhattan by attorneys for Brian Flores, who was fired as the Read More…
Linnentown, Georgia destroyed a Black neighborhood. Now former residents want justice. Many who lived in Linnentown are urging leaders in Athens to pay for destroying their community more than 50 years ago to make way for the University of Georgia. Hattie Thomas Whitehead has fond memories of her childhood in Linnentown, a 22-acre neighborhood in Read More…
Black Lives Matter When the Word Becomes Incarnate: The Power of the Voice. When the Word Becomes Incarnate: The Power of the Voice By J. Jioni Palmer, Contributing Writer Black. Lives. Matter. Three. Simple. Words. Alone they are inanimate. Just words on the page. Without context, definition, relevance, or meaning. Kind of like—White. Deaths. Unimportant. Read More…
Alabama Judge Accused Of Asking Black Employee If He Sold Drugs To Purchase Car Removed From Office. The Black employee said the judge saw his new car and asked him how he was able to afford it. Randy Jinks, a white probate judge in Alabama, has been removed from office after being accused of making racist and Read More…
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