Associated PressAugust 28, 2023
10min0
Jacksonville's racist past seemed to be losing its hold. But the racist killing of three Black people was a painful and startling reminder.
Tag: Nathan Bedford Forrest
Associated PressAugust 28, 2023
Mitch PerryOctober 4, 2017
3min279
Save Southern Heritage Florida is now pursuing legal action in Broward County against the city of Hollywood after city commissioners voted in August to rename three streets honoring Confederate war leaders. The Tampa-based advocacy group went to court earlier this year to prevent moving a Confederate monument from a Hillsborough County courthouse. On August 30, […]
Associated PressJune 22, 2017
1min385
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 […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2015
7min632
If the HRO expansion passes, a turning point in the public discourse might have come from someone who tried to silence it. It’s ironic, really, that white male opponents of the expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance objected to locating the so-called community conversations in what they called “high-crime neighborhoods.” The worry was that those delicate […]
Jac VerSteegJuly 13, 2015
4min188
Expect to see the Confederate flag back in the Florida Capitol as an unwanted Christmas present. How? Consider this item from the Broward/Palm Beach New Times. Writer Chris Joseph details plans by Chaz Stevens, described as “a Deerfield Beach activist and blogger,” to erect an elaborate Festivus pole this Christmas in the Capitol Rotunda. Stevens […]
Jac VerSteegJuly 12, 20154min537
Expect to see the Confederate flag back in the Florida Capitol as an unwanted Christmas present. How? Consider this item from the Broward/Palm Beach New Times. Writer Chris Joseph details plans by Chaz Stevens, described as “a Deerfield Beach activist and blogger,” to erect an elaborate Festivus pole this Christmas in the Capitol Rotunda. Stevens […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 11, 2015
3min257
We’ve written before about Mincy Pollock calling out his opponent in the At Large City Council Group 3 race, Tommy Hazouri, for not voting to change the name of Nathan B. Forrest High School in 2008 when Hazouri was on the Duval County School Board. Hazouri has not wanted to address that controversy and Pollock does not want to […]
A.G. GancarskiMarch 8, 20159min269
We’ve written before about Mincy Pollock‘s challenge to Tommy Hazouri in the At Large Group 3 Jacksonville City Council race. As we saw at the Tiger Bay forum some weeks back, when Pollock said that Hazouri was his “grandma’s favorite mayor”, the younger Democrat upstart clearly sees his road to victory as running through the venerable Hazouri, and today Pollock […]
Julie DelegalSeptember 24, 20135min236
“Never apologize for being right.” The words alone are provocative, but when they appear on a T-shirt with a giant Confederate flag, they become both inflammatory and puzzling. Never apologize for what? Secession? Slavery? How about white supremacy? The fight to rename Jacksonville’s Nathan Bedford Forrest High School raises the question. Should a public school […]