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A.G. GancarskiJuly 9, 2018

In the wake of violence in Charlottesville last year, former Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche compelled the city’s parks and recreation department to “inventory” Confederate monuments and markers on city property. The goal: “propose legislation to move Confederate monuments, memorials, and markers from public property to museums and educational institutions where they can be respectfully […]

Jim RosicaJanuary 11, 2018

Legislation to replace a statue of a Confederate general representing Florida in the U.S. Capitol is heading to the Senate floor. The bills (SB 472, SCR 184), which cleared their final committee Thursday, would replace the likeness of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith with educator and civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. “Dr. Bethune received the unanimous vote of the members […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2017

Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche requested an inventory of the city’s Confederate monuments from the Parks Department, and it was provided this week. What it reveals: three monuments, put in place between 1898 and 1926; and eight historic markers. The monuments include the Confederate Monument in Hemming Park, the ‘Monument to the Women of the […]

Associated PressAugust 18, 2017

Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz says the events surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend have put the “moral fiber” of the country in question. Schultz said at an employee forum in Seattle on Tuesday that he has “profound concern about the lack of character, morality, humanity,” displayed at the rally, according to […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 14, 2017

In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, which included one person killed by a domestic terrorist, protesters in Jacksonville renewed calls to remove Confederate monuments in the city. Such calls have increased in intensity in recent weeks, with interesting contretemps at Jacksonville City Council meetings between Confederate enthusiasts and progressives who believe […]

Associated PressJune 22, 2017

Five people were arrested after a clash about streets named after Confederate generals spilled over into a Hollywood, Florida city council meeting. News outlets report the protesters were charged with disrupting the Hollywood commission meeting Wednesday night. The disagreement involves three streets – Lee Street, named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee; Hood Street, named […]

Martin DyckmanMarch 14, 2017

An enduring lesson on what freedom of speech should mean to a college campus was taught more than a half-century ago by one of my favorite professors at Florida State University, Lewis M. Killian. I hadn’t taken his class or even met him at the time but something I had written was a hot discussion […]

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