City Council has withdrawn the Confederate monument legislation and may never take it up again — an act of cowardice that took place last week in an open forum where no one seemed the least bit dismayed or even ashamed. As it happened, I wondered, What are we teaching our children? Recently, on First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross, my
The wisdom of the Jacksonville City Council has always been a matter of debate. This is the same group that once saw a former councilman (Reggie Brown) argue for the better part of two months about whether people had the right to back their cars into their driveways. His theory was if they did so, they could use their trunks
“I’m never living in the South again.” This is what my mother says to me often. A New Orleans native who fled the muggy bayou for Chicago at the tail end of The Great Migration in 1970 has no desire to return to the soil that birthed her. Neither to live in New Orleans or to move permanently to Florida
