Organizers explain the gentrification of the Pleasant Street area at the third stop of the protest at A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center. Danielle Chanzes, a volunteer for the Gainesville Alliance for Equitable Development, said that after Seminary Lane apartments were torn down in 2009, hundreds of Black residents were promised affordable housing as a replacement, but no progress had been made since then.
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By Bayden Armstrong | Dec. 9Protestors of the death penalty sit outside Florida State Prison and pray in opposition to the execution of Mark Allen Geralds. Geralds was executed in Raiford on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.
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By Bayden Armstrong | Dec. 9Reverend Phillip Egitto speaks with Abraham Bonowitz outside Florida State Prison in opposition to the execution of Mark Allen Geralds. Geralds was executed in Raiford on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.





