Mary McLeod Bethune

An 11-foot marble likeness of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune replaced a statue of a former Confederate general that represented Florida in the National Statuary Hall for nearly a century.

Thursday is the last day of Black History Month. For Jacksonville, it’s a history that includes brushes with some of the nation’s most prominent black…

A proposal to place a statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol is ready to be considered by the full Florida…

A statue of civil-rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is halfway to its supporters’ goal of replacing the likeness of a Confederate general as a…