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What Oakwood police chief said about hiring and race to Newtown Florist Club
Oakwood Police Chief Tim Hatch says his priority is to hire officers who aren’t just trying to cash paychecks but those who want to invest in their community. However, recruiting a more diverse staff has presented challenges.
The police chief sat down with the Newtown Florist Club, Gainesville’s civil rights group, on Monday, March 8, to discuss the hiring process, his thoughts on having a department that mirrors its community and other issues affecting law enforcement.
The meeting was part of the club’s “Public Policy Committee George Floyd Initiative,” which has been ongoing since summer protests and open-air conversations began in 2020.
Building up, giving back: Black business directory to highlight success, need for support A&A Beauty Supply is a beauty supply catering to the African American woman. Owner Abeba Lemma has been in business in Gainesville since 1986. - photo by Scott Rogers
More than 150 of Gainesville’s Black-owned businesses will be listed in the Newtown Florist Club’s annual Black Business and Community Resource Directory due out the week of March 15.
The directory features the breadth and depth of Black enterprise in the city and highlights everything from brand-new businesses to those around for decades. It also includes businesses that closed their doors.
Stories of trauma and pride: Alumni discuss desegregation and closure of E.E. Butler Instructors at E.E. Butler High School are seen in this photo provided by Newtown Florist Club.
Built as a brand-new high school for Gainesville s Black students in the 1960s, E.E. Butler High School was only around for seven years. But the excellence that was fostered and flourished in its hallways, athletic fields and classrooms still permeate 52 years after its closure.
The segregated American public school system was dismantled by the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.
However, the unintended consequences of school desegregation not only led to E.E. Butler’s closure in 1969 but a generation of Black students who experienced a traumatic loss of identity in their new schools, according to alumni from Butler, who shared their stories in a virtual forum hosted by the Newtown Florist Club on Monday, Feb. 22, as a
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