June 15th launched a new and hope-filled week in Jacksonville as two astonishing actions — one federal and one local — took effect that significantly expand civil rights to LGBTQ people in our country and in our community. In an historic...
In the wake of local protests highlighting police brutality and the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, city council president-elect Tommy Hazouri announced creation this week of the Social Justice and Community Action committee...
photo credit: Cities United In the 18 years Paul Tutwiler has led the Northwest Jacksonville Community Development Corporation in Florida, the organization has tried a variety of strategies to reduce the neighborhood’s high levels of violent crime...
Sherry MagillCity council members heard public comment on Tuesday evening on a bill that expands protections under Jacksonville’s human rights ordinance to LGBTQ persons. Florida’s First District Court of Appeal recently struck down Jacksonville’s Human...
Claire GoforthToday, Synthia Roy works at a tattoo parlor in Jacksonville, Fla., she does set design and makeup for horror films and recently produced her second movie. But seven years ago, in her mid-30s, her life was a blur. In college, she’d turned to...
. . . we are learning — “Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson In his essay Friendship, Ralph Waldo Emerson argues that “we have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.” Despite...
JaxLookout recently reported on Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance (HRO Redux) and the protections for LGBT+ people that were overturned by the State of Florida’s First District Court of Appeal earlier this month. The Court of Appeal decision was...
…we are listening to – Jill Lepore’s podcast, “The Last Archive” The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Algernon...
Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance comes up as a first reading on the agenda at today’s City Council meeting. Readers of JaxLookout.com may wish to join in via the City’s website : The time of the meeting has been changed to 4:00pm...
According to a story in the Florida Times-Union (Thursday, May 7), Councilman Aaron Bowman filed a bill yesterday to correct problems identified by Florida’s First District Court of Appeal that made Jacksonville’s existing Human Rights...