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Changeville 2017: Gainesville’s Social Change Festival, an immersive festival that kicked off in Gainesville in 2016, is set to return for a second year of music, comedy and more in the pursuit of social change.
On a holiday when American presidents are celebrated, protesters in Gainesville carried handmade signs and stood in opposition to President Donald Trump.
UF student Marcela Mulholland plans to spend Earth Day in the great outdoors — marching from campus to downtown in the name of science.
During a candlelight vigil walk Thursday, two UF students held signs pointing in opposite directions.
7-year-old Jasmine Ricks, 4-year-old AJ Ricks, 5-year-old Michael Shade, and 5-year-old Jermiah Baker hold signs during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march outside of the MLK Multipurpose Center on Monday. Hundreds of people marched from Bo Diddley Community Plaza to the MLK Multipurpose Center to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
7-year-old Jasmine Ricks, 4-year-old AJ Ricks, 5-year-old Michael Shade, and 5-year-old Jermiah Baker hold signs during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march outside of the MLK Multipurpose Center on Monday. Hundreds of people marched from Bo Diddley Community Plaza to the MLK Multipurpose Center to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
More than 15 events are happening in Gainesville this week in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Events celebrating his life began Sunday and will end Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Gainesville bars and businesses will bid farewell to 2016 on Saturday night and ring in the new year with champagne toasts, a ‘bubble’ drop and music from the likes of David Bowie and Prince.
During an otherwise peaceful march against President-elect Donald Trump, which drew more than 1,000 people Saturday, a small fight broke out between a Trump supporter and an apparent protester.
Jeremiah Tattersall pointed to Gainesville’s anti-discrimination plaque inside City Hall on Thursday.
I feel like, on a national level, a lot of us have been moving through the stages of grief during this past week and a half. It started with us being in absolute denial that a candidate who many of us saw to be unfit had been elected. Once the initial shock subsided we were angry, outraged at the hateful reactions of extreme supporters. Some of us tried bargaining with the Electoral College as a last resort, with the hopes that maybe, just this one time, history could be rewritten and things would work out in our favor. When we realized that wasn’t possible, you could say a depression hit. It has taken a while to start moving on, but a lot of us are starting to accept the things we cannot change.
Tickets went on sale Monday for the second-annual Changeville music and entertainment festival.
Gainesville will host its first annual Fall Festival this Saturday.
As punk rock fans piled into Gainesville for Fest on Friday, local businesses prepared for some of the year’s highest sales numbers.
West University Avenue resembled a moving rainbow Saturday afternoon, with hundreds of people carrying colorful flags as they marched for LGBTQ+ pride.
Morgan Millett, a 22-year-old Spirit Halloween worker, spins poi on Bo Diddley Community Plaza during the Pride Festival on Saturday. Millett said she has been practicing poi for two or three years, but she felt she was more skilled at hooping.
Malik Fogg, 4, plays cornhole on the lawn of Bo Diddley Community Plaza during the Pride Festival.
Morgan Millett, a 22-year-old Spirit Halloween worker, kisses Nikki Mason, a 19-year-old Florida School of Massage alumna, while doing acroyoga on Bo Diddley Community Plaza on Saturday.
For an hour and a half Wednesday, University Avenue was blocked by police cars as a rally of citizens, law enforcement, children and students walked down the street, chanting for peace.
In the winter of 1980, Amber Waters went to her first concert to see The Eagles and Jimmy Buffett play at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
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