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Gainesville began its “Journey to Juneteenth” event series on Tuesday with a flag-raising ceremony, marking the first event in a month-long program celebrating Black history.
Florida’s book banning problem is rising — with no end in sight.
After President Donald Trump recently entered office for a second time, his administration seems poised to enact an anti-LGBTQ+ agenda more sweeping than his first term.
The UF Students for Justice in Palestine chapter failed to prove the state’s deactivation order limited its free speech in a court decision released Wednesday afternoon.
A UF pro-Palestinian student group could see a future victory in a courtroom against top Florida education officials after it cited First Amendment rights against a statewide order calling for the deactivation of its group.
Despite consistent rain, community members gathered on the corner of University Avenue and Northwest 13th Street to protest for Palestine on Thursday evening. Over 100 community members attended the event organized by the Gainesville Solidarity Network, Students for Justice in Palestine, Party for Socialism and Liberation and Jewish Voice for Peace.
A pro-Palestinian student group sued UF and state officials Thursday to block the Gov. Ron DeSantis administration’s order to shut the group down.
UF Planned Parenthood Generation Action, College Democrats, Young Democratic Socialists of America and other student organizations are getting involved with the statewide initiative to get abortion on the ballot for the 2024 election cycle.
UF President Kent Fuchs saw the images of about 300 students storming Sen. Ben Sasse’s student forum Oct.10 and was reminded of the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, he said.
Jeffrey Adler, a UF history professor, is somewhat of an expert in uncomfortable conversations — conversations that could be outlawed under a new state law.
Florida’s 15-week abortion ban went back in effect Tuesday afternoon after the state appealed a judge’s injunction blocking the ban, nullifying it in less than an hour.
A Florida judge announced plans to block a GOP-backed 15-week statewide abortion ban one day before it and other controversial conservative laws, like the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” and “Stop WOKE Act,” went into effect Friday.
Gainesville will celebrate Florida’s Emancipation Day, honoring the end of slavery in the state, by reading proclamations, flying flags, admiring artists and frying fish.
Partying: it’s what college kids do. Partying during a pandemic? That shouldn’t be what college kids do. It is irresponsible for our governor to condone partying while our state and country is under siege by a pandemic.
Cady Casellas sent her primary ballot through the mail two weeks early, because she was not sure it would arrive in time to be counted by 7 p.m. on Aug. 18.
As a Muslim, Wafaa Ateyah said she felt most vulnerable during the 2016 presidential election.
The Sunshine State isn’t so great — at least, that’s what a Colorado business group wants Gainesville residents to think.
A UF master’s student has co-founded a Twitter-trending LGBTQ+ campaign in response to a Supreme Court case.
Victims of sexual misconduct will soon have a support system on campus comprised solely of students.
Two unusual and explicit protests on Turlington Plaza have raised eyebrows this semester. First, the plaza was covered in gruesome and gory images of aborted fetuses and other such things as part of an anti-abortion protest. Not long after, anti-circumcision protesters swept through Turlington Plaza, carrying blunt signs like “Nobody wants less penis.” For many, these kinds of images and chants aren’t what they want to see and hear when they’re just trying to get to class on time. But not only are such protests legally protected, they are also necessary to encourage free speech and free expression on campus.
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