A soil collection ceremony was held in Grand Park on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, to remember Angela Carr, AJ Laguerre, Jerrald Gallion on the one-year anniversary of their deaths. A white supremacist killed the trio near a Dollar General on Aug. 26, 2023. The Jacksonville Community Remembrance Project says one jar will be presented to the families of the victims, while another will head to the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

This is the Dollar General store in Jacksonville where three people were shot to death Aug. 26, 2023. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Diana Greene, left, speaks with Johnnetta Betsch Cole after a reading of banned and restricted books in James Weldon Johnson Park in Jacksonville. Cole, an anthropologist and former president of Spelman College and Bennett College, is a Jacksonville native. Greene, CEO of the Children's Literacy Initiative, is the former superintendent of Duval County Public Schools. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today