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Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan, right, listens to Toni Bingham, center, and Marlena Smalls, right sing during a rememberance of Florida's Emancipation Day on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
May 20, 2025

Jacksonville celebrates Florida’s Emancipation Day

Jacksonville’s Emancipation Day celebration came less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court heard an argument for overturning birthright…

By Will Brown

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The FBI Jacksonville is encouraging the public to report hate crimes. l Steven Ponson
May 14, 2024

OPINION | Jacksonville’s hate crime legislation is too broad

What this legislation really does is criminalize speech.…

By Robin Lumb

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January 15, 2024

They’re not elected. They just keep showing up to City Council meetings

In a city of more than a million people, relatively few citizens are a consistent presence at the Downtown Jacksonville…

By Casmira Harrison

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