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Activist Ben Frazier is arrested in December of 2022 at City Hall for refusing to yield his time while speaking about removing Confederate monuments from Springfield Park. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
October 8, 2024

Effort to rename Confederate Street after late activist fails in Jacksonville City Council 

In a 10-7 vote, Jacksonville’s City Council decided against renaming the Springfield street after the late local civil rights activist…

By Casmira Harrison

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Fishweir Elementary is one of the schools that a consultant has floated as potentially ripe for closure and consolidation.
April 24, 2024

OPINION | School closures? Blame charters, state government and ‘choice’

I ask you to write your state representative and state senator to seek limitations on what charters can do and…

By Jimmy Peluso

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Ameris Bank mortgage officer Tamonica Mike outlines the Ameris Choice program in front of more than 75 people inside Somerset Academy in the Highlands community during a March 14, 2024 community meeting. Ameris Bank introduced the Ameris Choice program in January as part of a consent order the bank agreed to with the U.S. Department of Justice following the latter's acusation the bank redlined in Black and Hispanic communities in Jacksonville. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
March 21, 2024

$20k for homebuyers up for grabs under Ameris redlining settlement 

More than 300 Jacksonville area families are going to receive $20,000 apiece as part of a regional bank’s settlement with…

By Will Brown

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