Tampa's 48th mayor, Julian B. Lane, played a role in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the first southern mayors to support ...

All of Florida’s state lawmakers are governed by constitutional term limits. Now they’ll decide if some of the state’s ...

Longwood commissioners unanimously agreed Monday to end a decades-long practice of adding fluoride to the city’s drinking ...

Florida's Black history standards changed in 2023 to include a controversial line about enslaved people developing skills for ...

A “homegoing” service will be held Feb. 28 for longtime state lawmaker and civil-rights leader Geraldine Thompson, who died last week at age 76.

President Trump is touting a internal poll showing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) leading in a hypothetical Florida governor’s ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis scheduled a special election to fill a Florida Senate seat in Brevard County that will become vacant with the impending resignation of District 19 Sen. Randy Fine. Fine ...

Florida state Sen. Geraldine Thompson has died at age 76, her family announced in a statement. Her family said she died ...

During Black History Month, News4JAX is celebrating local African American trailblazers who paved the way in politics and ...

TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a long-serving legislator and “trailblazing” civil-rights leader from Central Florida, died after complications from knee surgery, her family announced Thursday.

Well-known Florida state Democratic Sen. Geraldine Thompson passed away on Thursday after complications from knee replacement surgery.

SOMBER ANNIVERSARY — Today marks seven years since the tragic mass shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...