It was his freshman year. The University of Florida student had just returned from a night out drinking with friends in 2018 when he was caught by university police with a fake ID — one he said he wasn’t even using that night. His friends had bought him alcohol, but …
Read More »UF Health Shands puts up pinwheels for child abuse prevention
UF Health Shands Hospital employees planted their 20th annual pinwheel garden this month to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month. A team of 23 employees and volunteers poked 1,000 blue and white spinning wheels into the grass in front of the hospital. The pinwheel garden has remained in place throughout April. …
Read More »How a Black marching band style was erased from Gainesville’s fields, and why it matters decades later
The story of this high school band reflects a much larger history of who the school system serves, and how the consequences of old decisions still ripple through the community decades later.
Read More »The removal of ‘Maus’ from a Tennessee school district is catching Floridians’ attention
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Spiegelman’s relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, by depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. The McMinn County School Board reportedly objected to eight curse words and nude imagery of a woman, used in the depiction of the author’s mother's suicide, according to NPR.
Read More »Recovering routine: A family’s fight for normalcy
The family couldn’t have predicted that their world would be turned upside down when Category Four Hurricane Ida barrelled through Lousiana on Aug. 29.
Read More »A 13-year-old in Putnam County is facing felony charges for repeating a rumor
In Florida's effort to better protect school campuses, students themselves are being more closely policed.
Read More »Halloween isn’t the only day in costume for these dystopia role players
Kegan McConnell spends his weekends in a dystopia covered in yellow and blue makeup. A sand dollar necklace adorns his sweat-drenched neck. He draws fake weapons. He bleeds fake blood. During the week, he returns to his day job as a mild-mannered accountant. McConnell, who role-plays as a human-fish hybrid …
Read More »Violent crimes are increasing in Gainesville, police department is addressing the community today
The number of violent offenses in the city of Gainesville is on pace to exceed those reported last year, in 2020.
Read More »Gainesville City Leaders Make A Push To Help Black Families Hold Onto Their Property
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, heirs’ property is “the leading cause of Black involuntary land loss.” African Americans, who once owned 15 million acres, lost up to 90 % of their land from 1910-2007.
Read More »A Hidden Crisis Of The Pandemic: Violence Against Women Hasn’t Stopped. Neither Have the Women-Led Organizations Combating the Problem.
Tsvetelina Thompson was 20 years old when her ex-boyfriend trafficked her. At first, she said, he was a “really sweet guy.” He would take her on lavish trips around Europe, adorning her with elaborate gifts – luxuries she never knew coming from a poor childhood in Bulgaria. So, she ran …
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