January 10, 2024
An eight-member task force will meet Friday as it seeks to select a location for the Florida Museum of Black…
January 10, 2024
Library lands $1 million grant for Black history collection
The grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation is the largest private donation in the library’s history.…
December 18, 2023
Jacksonville civil rights patriarch Lloyd Pearson dies at 102
Lloyd Pearson Jr., the grand old man of Jacksonville’s civil rights struggle, died Sunday afternoon. He was 102.…
October 17, 2023
THE JAXSON | The history of Jacksonville’s Moncrief neighborhood
Known as the District of Soul, Moncrief is a historic neighborhood located a few miles northwest of Downtown Jacksonville. Here…
October 10, 2023
THE JAXSON | 13 historic Eastside photographs
A photographic journey into the history of Jacksonville’s Eastside, one of its oldest urban neighborhoods and now home to the…
September 26, 2023
THE JAXSON | Getting to know the Edward Waters University historic district
Part of Edward Waters University was added to the National Register of Historic Places last year. These 6 buildings make…
September 20, 2023
OPINION | Jacksonville should act to reverse the legacy of racist housing policies
The U.S. government created ghettoes. Government action produced racially segregated communities in the U.S., including in Jacksonville. This was no…
August 29, 2023
Black scholars will mobilize in Jacksonville next month
Leaders of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History say they won’t be deterred by racial…
August 10, 2023
1619 Project founder denounces Florida’s social studies standards
As school starts this week in Northeast Florida, Nikole Hannah-Jones says students are getting a whitewashed version of African American…
July 23, 2023
OPINION | VP Harris exposed DeSantis’ weakness
VP Harris spoke truths about Gov. Ron DeSantis that Florida’s disempowered Democrats lack the platform to fully get over on…
July 19, 2023
OPINION | New African American history standards eschew context
The prevailing narrative of Florida’s new social studies standards, and in our country writ large, is that Black Americans are…
May 29, 2023
‘You don’t see a lot of Black, female pilots.’ This Riverside graduate aims to be one.
This Riverside High graduate plans to enroll in Jacksonville University’s School of Aviation.…
February 15, 2023
OPINION | The real life implications of erasing history
What came home from school was a list of people, places, or things the students could portray. Out of two…
February 1, 2023
OPINION | Rinse and repeat
The hashtags that now date back a decade, and centuries of crimes against humanity, are the reason A.P. African American…
May 17, 2022
Some Black groups say they were left out of Jacksonville’s bicentennial, so they’re holding their own events instead
Celebrating the city’s two centuries of history – warts and all – was the challenge the Jacksonville Historical Society was…
May 1, 2022
Independent Florida water providers are shutting down. American Beach’s doesn’t want to be next.
Construction will begin soon on a new water and sewer system in American Beach, the historically African American community in…
February 7, 2022
OPINION | The value of being
There’s a notion that has circulated in the Black community for generations: Black people have to be twice as good…
February 1, 2022
THE JAXSON | 5 Black history sites in Brooklyn
In honor of the beginning of Black History Month, here’s a review of sites in the quickly changing neighborhood of…
January 31, 2022
OPINION | Erasing Black history does not erase Black people
In my other life, I write books and host a podcast. I am unabashed about centering the point of view…