Tag: black history month

Long before the modern-day iteration of Stanton College Preparatory School grew to be one of the country’s top public high ...

Upon moving to Jacksonville in 1873, Joseph E. Lee became the city’s first practicing Black lawyer. As it turned out, ...

In the early days of NASCAR racing, Jacksonville hosted Grand National Series races on six different occasions at Speedway Park, ...

Most of the murals that have popped up around Jacksonville in recent years have a certain bubbliness to them, utilizing ...

Did you know that Jacksonville was the hometown of key figures from the American civil rights movement, including A. Philip ...

In the early days of aviation, Bessie Coleman was a pioneer in so many ways. Coleman became America’s first Black ...

When North Florida Land Trust moved into its new office building at 843 W. Monroe Street in LaVilla, it marked ...

Following the Civil War, newly free Black men and women joined the ranks of paid workers throughout the country. But ...

Over the past few decades, the Brooklyn neighborhood has gotten quite a makeover. The once-modest suburb was absorbed into downtown ...

Not many people would recognize him by name, but Leonard “Truck” Robinson was likely the best basketball prospect ever to ...