When the Edward Waters University football team kicked off its 2023 season on Saturday afternoon at Nathaniel Glover Community Field & Stadium, the historically Black university’s community acknowledged the lives lost in the previous week’s racially motivated mass shooting.
This photo essay is a head nod to the nuance and the full lives of the more than 300,000 Black Americans who live in Jacksonville.
Voters share why they participated in the March 2023 Jacksonville elections, which had just 25.6% turnout.
Hundreds marched in the 42nd annual MLK Holiday Grand Parade on Monday morning in Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Today’s Will Brown shares his favorite images he’s captured over the past year.
Activists with the Northside Coalition and other civil rights groups implored the Jacksonville City Council Tuesday to remove the Confederate monument in Springfield Park, while a faction of speakers asked the Council to keep them up. Before the meeting, protests began in James Weldon Johnson Park when an organist played a few moments before 4 p.m. and Northside Coalition founder
Mariam Feist was direct: It is going to take a community-wide effort to “combat the root causes of bias.” Feist, CEO of the Jewish Federation & Foundation of Northeast Florida, was among the hundreds who gathered at James Weldon Johnson Park on Thursday evening for a unity vigil to denounce the series of anti-Semitic incidents in Jacksonville last weekend. “Jacksonville
The Northwest Classic is more than a football game. It’s an opportunity to be the Kings of Moncrief for a year. Raines has held that crown for the last six seasons. The Vikings held on to beat Ribault 30-19 on Saturday afternoon in front of a sold out Earl Kitchings Stadium. The meeting was the 53rd time the two programs
The Jaguars thumped Indianapolis 24-0 on Sunday afternoon in their 2022 home opener. The paid attendance of 58,360 may have been one of the smallest for a home opener, but the players and coaches certainly fed off the energy. “I thought we had a really good crowd today. They got loud on a couple of defensive fourth down plays, you
Photos and captions by Dennis Ho | Editing by Matthew Shaw | Intro by Jessica Palombo The Eastside, or Out East, as residents know it, is the poster community for “withintrification” in Jacksonville. The once-vibrant historically Black neighborhood has struggled economically, but residents say they don’t need outsiders to drive improvements. For Jacksonville Today, photographer Dennis Ho shares portraits of