Category: Protests

Past debates over Pensacola’s Confederate flag displays offer some insight into Mayor Grover Robinson’s reluctance to deal with the city’s Confederate monuments. He saw the…

Early Tuesday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry ordered city workers to remove the bronze statue of a Confederate soldier that had been displayed in downtown…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Protesters encamped near Graffiti Bridge are being told by city officials that they need to relocate to a different location. The…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The question is recurring. The answer is always the same: not yet. This question was asked again—shouted from the crowd —…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly After a wild weekend that saw Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson commit to a group of protesters blocking the roadway at the…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly It was aggressive negotiations to be sure  – linking arms and blocking traffic at the foot of the Pensacola Bay bridge…

A Reflection on MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Clergy from seven historic downtown religious communities in Pensacola, FL reflect on Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter…

Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country. Yet we…

Statement from Bishop William A. Wack, CSC on the Death of George Floyd and Protests PENSACOLA, FL (June 2, 2020)— The death of George Floyd…

Cousin Bobo predicted this days ago. Last week, President Donald Trump protested Twitter putting a fact-checking label his tweet about mail-in ballots and later limited…

Charles Wyscaver, a 60-year old white male from Pensacola, Florida who was seen on camera punching a 14-year old mentally disabled black girl in her…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Members of the community organization Dream Defenders publicly staked out its position on the city of Pensacola’s response thus far to…

Inweekly publisher Rick Outzen and several News Journal reporters have been blocked from State Rep. Mike Hill’s official Twitter account. This morning we sent a…

On Monday, June 4 at 6 p.m. in MLK Plaza, there will be an event in solidarity with the LGBTQ community and response to Rep….

Peter Schorsch, publisher of some of Florida’s most influential new media websites, including Florida Politics and Sunburn, wrote a scathing viewpoint calling for GOP leaders…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, (R-FL), knew to expect the protesters as he walked out of his town hall event in Pensacola…

It took three tries and criticism from Inweekly and the Pensacola News Journal, but Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson did condemn the statements made at recent…

Eight days after a group meeting in Pensacola City Hall that joked about passing legislation that would make homosexuality a crime punishable by death, Mayor…

Citizens Against Corporate Welfare today filed the paperwork with the City of Pensacola to form a petitioners’ committee that will ask the Pensacola City Council…