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First Coast ConnectAmong the moments being celebrated during the commemoration of the civil rights movement is a little known local milestone — the largest mass arrest of…
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A new report documents concern about a lack of minority judges on the local bench.There are 35 judges in Florida's 4th Judicial Circuit, and just one,…
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This past weekend, a Voto Latino Power Summit was held at Florida International University, the first such summit in Miami for the first time. The...
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Award-winning journalist, former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Jacksonville resident, Charlie Cobb was at the…
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JAXPORT, judges, and Jeb Bush are in the headlines today.Welcome to WJCT First Read, your daily weekday morning round-up of stories from the First Coast,…
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More than 1,500 members of the civic group 100 Black Men of America are in Fort Lauderdale this week for the organization’s 28th annual convention. The...
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Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She opened doors for black and female writers.
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First Coast ConnectSixty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, historians and advocates say the country still has a ways to go when…
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There are now three new inductees in the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame. They range from the author of the Black National Anthem to another who’s...
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Students and civil rights activists have asked Gov. Rick Scott to hold black and Hispanic students to a higher standard. The Southern Poverty Law Center...