On Thursday, President Trump officially accepts the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention from the White House lawn. The venue for his speech has ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A mob of white men wielding ax handles charges toward a crowd of Black people in Downtown Jacksonville. Then, the beatings begin. That's the scene depicted in a newly unearthed ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- August 27 marks the anniversary of one of the more horrendous events in Jacksonville's history. It was 56 years ago when the brutal attack that became known as "Ax Handle ...

Jacksonville, Fla. — It’s been 60 years since violence broke out in Downtown Jacksonville now known as “Ax Handle Saturday”. The unrest happened following civil rights protests, mostly sit-ins, by ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At age 16, Marjorie Meeks Browns was among the youth protesters attacked during a peaceful lunch counter sit-in Aug. 27, 1960, in downtown Jacksonville. But Meeks Brown would go ...

The Jacksonville Historical Society unearthed previously and purposely buried video of 'Ax Handle Saturday,' a white mob's brutal racist beating of black people - including children and teenagers - on ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For weeks, teenagers, adults and people of all races across the nation, including Jacksonville, have been marching and protesting against racism and injustice. Sixty years ago, ...

The 60th anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday and the lunch-counter sit-in demonstrations leading up to it will be commemorated Thursday at what’s now known as James Weldon Johnson Park, formerly Hemming ...

Brown was the 16-year-old NAACP Youth Council secretary and one of the few females to have leadership roles during the lunch-counter sit-ins. She attended Edward Waters College and started a 39-year ...

Matthew Decker had just gotten back from the store with his wife when he discovered an object stuck in the mud that looked like it was plucked right out of the Marvel Universe. There had been a heavy ...

Matthew Decker had just gotten back from store with his wife when he discovered an object stuck in the mud that looked like it was plucked right out of the Marvel Universe. There had been a heavy rain ...