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The topic is extremely heavy and hard to talk about-- And that's the point. The exhibit drives the point home that lynching is not something that happened far away.

The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center (LMCC), St. Augustine Historical Society (SAHS), and Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM), are pleased to present a multi-institutional exhibition and panel series “Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood” in April 2022. Both the exhibition and panel series are inspired by the lived experiences of writer, curator, wife, and mother Shawana Brooks, and celebrates the resilience of Black mothers through the lens of visual and litera...

Following a year of student-led protests and rallies calling for racial justice in the classroom, school names that better represent their peers, mental health resources and updated curriculum, a local college will host its annual summer camp to help those young leaders hone in on their demands.  Registration for the University of North Floridas Bridges Summer Camp — a free online summer camp for young people who want to explore racial equity, social justice and activist perspectives — clo...

Activist groups in Jacksonville react to guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin trial Ex-officer found guilty of murder, manslaughter in George Floyd’s death Updated:  Tags:  In this image from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin wa...

So it wont be forgotten: Children of Jacksonville-area Holocaust survivors tell their families stories It’s painful and exhausting for them to talk about it, but they want you to know of their parents as the people they were: tough, scarred, generous. Survivors. Credit: Provided by Louis Post Louis Posts mother, Anna, was a prisoner of the Nazis at Auschwitz. She survived and is still alive at 98. Author: Florida Times-Union, Matt Soergel Published: 3:51 PM EST...

So it wont be forgotten: Children of Jacksonville-area Holocaust survivors tell their families stories Matt Soergel, Florida Times-Union © Provided by Louis Post Louis Posts mother, Anna, was a prisoner of the Nazis at Auschwitz. Sher survived and is still alive at 98. The children of some of the more than 100 Holocaust survivors still living in Northeast Florida are now telling the stories of their parents — European Jews who somehow survived the Nazi concentration and la...

The children of some of the more than 100 Holocaust survivors still living in Northeast Florida are now telling the stories of their parents — European Jews who somehow survived the Nazi concentration and labor camps, set about building families of their own, came to America and dealt with memories of an unspeakable horror that lingered throughout their lives. It’s painful and exhausting for them to talk about it, but they want you to know of their parents as the people they were: tough,...

Blooming hope: Community Tree project in Jacksonville lets people share messages of love, loss It does do what we had hoped, which is create a space where were giving people permission to be sad, and permission to be hopeful. Author: Florida Times-Union, Tom Szaroleta Published: 9:23 PM EST December 25, 2020 Updated: 11:31 PM EST December 25, 2020 JACKSONVILLE, Fla — While most trees are losing their foliage for the winter, a live oak in Riversi...

While most trees are losing their foliage for the winter, a live oak in Riverside is blooming with messages of hope, grief and love. The Community Tree is in the front yard of the Yellow House art gallery at 577 King St. in Jacksonville. For the next few months, people are invited to stop by, jot a message on one of the 3-inch-by-4-foot ribbons and hang it in the tree. The idea for the project came from cultures across the world, said Hope McMath, Yellow House director. She said Scotland has a...