May 8, 2025
Activists sought to preserve the old jail where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was held after segregation protests.…
February 21, 2025
Johnnie Mae Chappell honored 61 years after her murder
A memorial marker now stands where racists gunned down the 35-year-old Black woman on March 23, 1964.…
February 4, 2025
Advocates try to save civil rights landmark in St. Johns County
The county is considering a plan to tear down an old county jail building with ties to the Rev. Martin…
February 4, 2025
St. Augustine Beach recognizes Black History Month for first time
St. Augustine Beach had never issued a formal proclamation recognizing Black History Month until Monday night.…
January 20, 2025
Jacksonville reflections on King’s legacy, Trump’s inauguration
Local people reflect on the simultaneous MLK Day holiday and inauguration of President Donald Trump.…
October 2, 2024
Remembering the racial killing of Johnnie Mae Chappell
A historic marker will honor a Jacksonville mother who was gunned down in 1964 by white men out to kill…
May 27, 2024
Son of ‘most arrested rabbi in America’ traces father’s steps in St. Augustine
Avi Dresner recently visited to film for a documentary about his dad who was arrested in St. Augustine during the…
February 25, 2024
Survivors of Klan terror in Murray Hill share their story with Jacksonville leaders 60 years later
Donal Godfrey survived a Ku Klux Klan bombing in Murray Hill at age 6. He shared his story with City…
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.…
December 5, 2023
Family sues over fatal shooting by Camden sergeant
Attorney Ben Crump filed the suit in the death of Leonard Allen Cure, who was released from a wrongful prison…
August 28, 2023
Dollar General shooting aligns with anniversary of racist violence of Ax Handle Saturday
Sunday’s vigils for the racially motivated shooting occurred on the 63rd anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday.…
June 19, 2023
Jacksonville is starting line for ‘rolling protest’ aimed at Black voters
On Juneteenth, the celebration of Black people being belatedly notified of their rights, scores of people rallied against new Florida…
January 4, 2023
OPINION | The lie of invisibility
Banning books eliminates an opportunity for students to expand beyond their own surroundings and worldview.…
November 15, 2022
THE JAXSON | LaVilla’s Railroad Row in color
Between 1890 and 1920, more than 20 million immigrants arrived in the United States. Many found Jacksonville’s LaVilla neighborhood as…
August 28, 2022
Civil rights conference faces Jacksonville’s past, present and future: ‘It’s in your hands’
The inaugural Jacksonville Civil Rights Conference this past weekend explored how the city can move beyond its segregated history and…