Black excellence

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. 

There’s a notion that has circulated in the Black community for generations: Black people have to be twice as good to get half as much. From Barack Obama to Alvin Brown, Black people in positions of prominence and priority are forced to be nothing less than exceptional and excellent. So much so, that we’ve bought into our own hype, hash