Black Lives Matter

The police reform bill that has garnered bipartisan support is going to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The bill was a product of House and Senate leadership working with the Legislative Black Caucus.

Civil-rights attorneys are challenging a new set of state laws that establish a crime of “mob intimidation” and enhance penalties for riot-related violence and looting, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the measures unconstitutionally “seek to arrest the peaceful expression of free speech.”

About eight months after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis touched off nationwide "Black Lives Matter" protests, a Florida state senator has filed a bill that targets strangulation by police officers.

The slogan-bearing tee shirts are popping up in unexpected locales.

The marchers were upset at the results of a Friday grand jury announcement that officers who fired fatal shots in three separate incidents this year would not be charged.

Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey took to Twitter Monday to address a fight between white protesters and white counter-protestors at a black lives matter rally this week. During the altercation, a white counter-protester brandished his gun.

Tallahassee Police Department says no one will face charges following the altercation that took place during a Black Lives Matter protest outside the Florida Capitol on Saturday

First a tee-shirt and soon an original song. Two Capital City teachers are hoping their message of inclusiveness will help cool overheated passions.

The removal of problematic names and the acknowledgment of the current racial climate were at the forefront of the Tallahassee Commissions agenda. Lynn Hatter reports in an hours-long meeting, commissioners voted to erect new monuments to racial equity, and remove vestiges of a problematic past.

The Florida AFL-CIO led rallies across the state today to ask local leaders to stand up for economic and racial justice. In Tallahassee, participants circled the Capitol in cars, honking to show support of the movement.