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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • Mainstreet Daily News: Former Gainesville mayor dies. “According to a city of Gainesville release, Lowe, 65, served as the District 4 commissioner from 2003-10 and then made history as the city’s first …
Read More »Remembering Rosewood: Descendants mark racial violence that razed Florida town 100 years ago
ROSEWOOD, Fla. – Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’s living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of early 1900s history. Tables are littered with artifacts from her aunt, including frayed handkerchiefs and a metal coin purse — family heirlooms almost lost to hate. The 84-year-old’s expression changed as she remembered …
Read More »Groups Rally In Orlando As Anti-Riot Bill ‘HB 1’ Passes Florida House
As House Bill 1 “Combating Public Disorder” passed the Florida House of Representatives Friday, activist groups rallied in Orlando to protest the legislation.
Read More »‘I Never Felt Sorry I Was A Girl’: Rosalie Miller and Kathleen Culver in The Fight for Women’s Rights
For Women's History Month, we profile two women who have been significant in the fight for equality in Gainesville.
Read More »The Point, Dec. 23, 2020: Coronavirus And Beyond: These Were 25 Of The Top Stories Of 2020
As the year comes to a close, here's a look back at the stories that stayed in the headlines.
Read More »Malala Yousafzai Discusses Girls’ Education, Pandemic, U.S. Election In UF Event
After years of campaigning internationally for greater access to education for girls, Malala Yousafzai took her final classes at Oxford University like other students everywhere – on Zoom. A Pakistani who in 2014 became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, at age 17, Yousafzai these days has moved from fighting with …
Read More »Florida Speaker Chris Sprowls Weighs In On Police, Patriotism
Sprowls’ views on law enforcement and patriotism were among a handful of issues the new speaker outlined during his remarks Tuesday.
Read More »‘Trying To Come To Grips’: Poet Laureate Offers Poetry On Racial And Social Injustice
Stanley Richardson, the Alachua County poet laureate, choked over the words Thursday evening as he read from one of his new poems, “8 Minutes and 46 Seconds”:
Read More »Florida Governor Pushes ‘Anti-Mob” Proposal In Response To Protests
As of Tuesday, the proposal is still a draft. No bills have been filed in either the House or Senate.
Read More »Alachua County’s Inaugural Poet Laureate Turns Passion Into Public Service
E. Stanley Richardson will serve as Alachua County's first poet laureate, a position that has a two-year term.
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