Calvin Bryant never graduated from high school. He never studied for the various specialized skill exams he’s passed with flying colors. He’s self-taught in all he does – from opening a Caribbean-American restaurant, operating a contracting business and gardening a stretch of land he…
“Art goes unappreciated and unpaid,” agreed the Four Winds co-managers, Sophia Schultz and Ava Howard. This was intentionally not the case this past Saturday evening at the Four Winds’ student art show, an event the café would like to see become a recurring tradition. Both…
When I got to Orange Blossom Community Garden for my interview with coordinator Barbara Powell-Harris, a boy named Cameron ran up to the gate with the key to let me in. Cameron lives in the neighborhood and comes to the garden all the time, he…
I was in the garden when Lou called me. When I answered he said “We got ‘em, Kat. We got the big dogs.” I knew better than to ask who or what the big dogs were right away. Lou Murray – the Vice President of…
When a Winn Dixie off Tamiami Trail and Myrtle closed in 2010, residents of Newtown had to walk two or three extra miles south to get to Publix until the Neighborhood Walmart opened in the same spot a few years later. The Historic African…
It is nearly impossible to travel east down Dr. Martin Luther King Way without noticing three construction sites on the south side. These sites are manifestations of Ringling College of Art and Design’s expansion plan. As development presses forward, local residents have been left with…
Students and young activists from all corners of the Southeast United States came together at the 2016 Regional Power Shift Conference held in Orlando this past weekend. Organized by the Power Shift Network (formerly the Energy Action Coalition), Power Shift provided a space to…
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan dubbed July National Ice Cream month. NASA recently proclaimed July of this year to be the hottest month on record. To elaborate, this July globally experienced the highest heat ever to be documented since records began in the late 1800’s.…
To wrap up a month of action in April, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) took to the sidewalks in front of a Sarasota Wendy’s to drive the message home: join the Fair Food Program or feel the burn of a national boycott. “Farmworkers and…
Sunday morning saw more than 100 people gather in front of the Selby Public Library at 11 to march for Trans Rights. Water, beads and sunscreens were passed around, as well as signs that said “Hate has no place in our education system” and “Safe…
