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Sixty-one years ago, an Air Force veteran named George Starke Jr. became the first African American student to attend UF when he enrolled in our law school.
Everyone’s a critic. This phrase has never been truer than it is today. The internet is a breeding ground for comments, critiques and unsolicited opinions. On every social media platform or website, comment sections fall at the end of the page.
He was 19 when he became the Colorado Springs Police Department’s first black officer.
A screen lit up with an image of waves crashing Tuesday night in Pugh Hall.
No matter how hard Chanae Jackson-Baker tries, she cannot connect with her children’s teachers in the Alachua County Public Schools.
The Alligator’s editorial board is always on the hunt for wrongdoers to write editorials about. We keep a watchful eye on who elevates our heart rate, no matter how small the infraction, so we can take them to task in a 600-word smackdown. But most of the people who end up on our list are too mundane to merit a full declaration. We have compiled a selection of those who didn’t make the cut so we may condemn them all simultaneously. We hope none of our readers are a part of these groups who commit small, commonplace sins.
The black population at UF has declined since Student Body President Ian Green’s parents graduated more than 30 years ago.
Lately, when spending time with friends — whether we’re lunching, brunching or contemplating whatever the latest mini-dilemma is on our radar — our conversations seem to circle back to the same realization, which typically comes in the form of “Wow … after graduation, it’s really the end,” or, “Not to be all ‘Debbie Downer,’ but this is it, you guys.”
Over the past two weekends I have attended two pride parades — one in Atlanta and one locally on Bo Diddley Community Plaza — in solidarity with friends and family members who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community. In response to my travels, I was asked why pride parades continue to be heavily celebrated, despite the fact that this community now has the right to marriage and most discriminatory practices are now outlawed. I will try to answer this based on my own observations and ideas.
People ran away in horror when a man with a swastika print T-shirt approached the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
James Baldwin once stated, “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” His frustration with the United States was borne out of the dream it sold being inconsistent with the reality that he experienced in New York.
While former American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen chatted with a group of students after a discussion about censorship, John Cervera clutched a copy of her book in his hand.
Why are you running for this office?
Viviane Charlestin remembers wearing a red dress when her family drove to West Palm Beach on a hot day in 2003.
Screenings are open to the public on the last Thursday of each month until the year ends.
In a backyard as big as his imagination, a young Alfredo Perez Jr. can’t resist the sweet summer smell of fresh mangoes.
At The Alligator’s office, our articles prior to the 2000s are bound in black-spined books. Articles of more recent years are saved in blue binders with the semester and year etched on its side.
It’s a quiet morning in the summer of 2016 as Kelly Barnhill walks the streets of Takasaki, Japan.
After a 2015 The Washington Post article reported the plunging numbers of UF’s black students, the former vice president for Student Affairs commissioned the Black Student Affairs Taskforce — a group of staff, faculty and students — to research how to improve the campus experience for black students.
Solutions by The State News
