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The Emerging Artist Program was developed in response to a challenge: What would it take to diversify the Downtown Festival and Art Show?
Read More »Inside the effort to diversify north central Florida’s largest arts festival
National Pan-Hellenic Council Garden at UF faces third vandalism instance
Amid the pandemic and a host of Martin Luther King Jr. commemorations nearly two years ago, a small group of students, alumni, faculty and administrators attended a ceremony to celebrate the legacy of Black fraternities and sororities at the University of Florida. The focus of the event, on Jan. 14, …
Read More »Gainesville residents call on city commission to abolish K9 unit
The Gainesville City Commission's special meeting on the K9 unit largely pitted law enforcement officers pleading to preserve the unit against community members calling to dismantle it.
Read More »A Jonesville man’s story challenges the logic of Florida’s process to award a marijuana license to a Black farmer
It highlights a paradox: To win a license intended to remedy historic inequalities in wealth and access, you might need to be rich and well-connected.
Read More »Black-owned farms are disappearing. One Alachua County man is fighting to preserve what’s left
The number of Black-run farms has dwindled from almost one million to just 50,000 today. John "Ronnie" Nix is fighting to preserve what's left.
Read More »Decolonizing the Curriculum, Episode 5: Unsung heroes and heroines in Alachua County
They range in topic and experience but are all interconnected by similar characteristics: their struggles, their perseverance, their strength. These are the tales of unsung heroes in Florida.
Read More »Decolonizing the Curriculum, Episode 4: Remembering Black joy in Florida
In this episode, we will highlight moments of Black joy in the United States and in Florida.
Read More »Decolonizing the Curriculum, Episode 3: The changing landscape of K-12 and higher education in Florida
This is an abridged version of Episode 3 of the Broadcasting Hope podcast that has been edited for the web. The full podcast can be heard above. Over 150 years of post Civil War history can be traced through what is today Lincoln Middle School in Alachua County. But let’s …
Read More »Decolonizing the Curriculum, Episode 2: The Seminoles and land grant universities
This is an abridged version of Episode 2 of our Decolonizing the Curriculum podcast. For the full story, listen to the audio above. The silver river is a five-mile long stretch of spring-fed water that winds through the heart of Florida just east of Ocala in Marion county. Today, kayakers …
Read More »Decolonizing the Curriculum, Episode 1: Understanding the fabric of Africa and Florida
This is an abridged version of Episode 1 of our Decolonizing the Curriculum podcast. For the full story, listen to the audio above. Take a moment and picture the continent of Africa before the 15th century — precolonial Africa. What images come to mind? Perhaps you picture the Nile River, …
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