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City council members were forced to walk through the crowd of people praying in order to reach the front door of the building.
Read More »Williston Prayer Vigil Calls For Citywide Unity Amid Racial Tensions
Familiar Faces Vie For Newly Open District 3 Alachua County Commission Seat
Without the ability to get out into the county and share their goals, the candidates must work to find new ways to show their visions for the future.
Read More »Gainesville Activists Want Shift In City Budget Priorities, But Will Likely Have To Wait A Year
Activists have spent the past three weeks trying to urgently sway Gainesville city budget decisions.
Read More »Anti-Racism Books See Spike In Readership Locally, Nationwide
Desmond Reid, a Black independent bookstore owner, is hopeful.
Read More »Florida School District Curriculum Reports Show Gaps In Black History Education
Talk about turning in a late homework assignment: Florida’s school districts have known about the July 1 deadline for nearly a year, when the department ordered the reports.
Read More »Congressional Candidate Reports Break-In At Campaign Headquarters
One supporter of Kat Cammack likened the break-in on Facebook to the 1972 "Watergate" scandal.
Read More »In Race For Congress, Florida’s ‘Gator Bait’ Cheer And Its Links To Racism Become An Issue
Congressional candidate Judson Sapp distributed more than 1,000 Gator Bait signs across the district.
Read More »Orlando Protest Movement Marches Forward; City Dodges Destruction Seen Elsewhere
The May-June mass demonstrations in Central Florida were the largest in decades.
Read More »Black Lives Matter Marchers Gather In Newberry
Echoes of “Black Lives Matter!” and “No justice, no peace!” could be heard throughout the city of 6,100.
Read More »Deaf Community Faces Access Issues To Vital Government Updates
When Florida first began responding to the coronavirus in March, Alachua and Marion counties gave updates without an interpreter or closed captioning, delaying access to vital news for those in the hard of hearing and deaf communities.
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