Gainesville Black History Month community spotlight: Elois Waters
Editor's note: This month, The Sun will dive into some of Gainesville's underrepresented community leaders and their work. We focus first on Elois Waters and her decades spent shaping generations of Alachua County residents' lives and bringing dance to underserved families. Girls and boys in black leotards and tights or T-shirts and athletic shorts fill the room, stretching along the mirrored walls and practicing pliés, high kicks and their latest choreography. Later, men and women will take their places and perform the same ritual. Kirk Franklin songs play in the background, singing mes...