Gainesville celebrates Juneteenth weekend
Yvette Carter celebrated Juneteenth for half a decade before the rest of Gainesville caught up.
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Yvette Carter celebrated Juneteenth for half a decade before the rest of Gainesville caught up.
Black Music Month and Juneteenth festivities fused together in Woodland Park Thursday.
The driver charged for the hit-and-run that killed UF student Margaret “Maggie” Paxton will serve six years in prison, a judge ruled Friday.
Alachua County high school seniors attended their graduation ceremonies, maskless and side-by-side, for the first time in two years. The county had more than twice as many COVID-19 cases during this year’s graduation week compared to last year.
Under tall pecan trees, community members joined hands in song, fried batches of fish and flew Juneteenth flags while honoring the end of slavery in Florida.
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.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' newest legislation will require Florida public schools to teach students about communist regimes and the people who suffered under them.
Joni Messler pirouetted through life.