Ben Frazier

Kelly Frazier has been a member of the Northside Coalition since her father founded it.

Ben Frazier, once a trailblazing journalist who became an advocate for racial justice, has died.

Friday will mark the fifth straight year Jacksonville will have separate breakfasts honoring Martin Luther King.

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

A week ago, the world hadn’t heard of Ben Frazier. The president of the Northside Coalition was known locally, but it took a trip to the Florida Department of Health building in Jacksonville for Frazier to become celebrated from coast to coast. Frazier, a one-time broadcast journalist who still has the voice for the gig, was unrelenting when advised that