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Please review our extensive collection of articles on this page. Included are articles from local, regional, and national press. 

Education

Gainesville Times - 01/15/2012 (Dallas Duncan)

 

Black community reflects on educational past, present

https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/black-community-reflects-on-educational-past-present/

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 AccessWDUN -08/24/2022 

 

https://accesswdun.com/article/2022/8/1126393/newtown-florist-club-to-produce-documentary-about-former-gainesville-black-schools

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Enviromental Justice 

Social Justice 

Rose Johnson Tackles Hate in Hall County. Georgia  

https://www.ajc.com/life/rose-johnson-tackles-hate-in-hall-county-georgia/APFBALIRPRGQFMUPXE334O5Z4A/

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Written By: Candice Dyer /AJC/11/15/2022

75th Anniversary / E.E. Butler High School Documentary Screening 

Gainesville Times - 10/28/2025 ( Adriana Cascio) 

60th Anniversary / Shirley Sherrod Keynote Speaker 

Environmental Justice

 

GeorgiaHealthNews.com

Written by; Drew Kann, Shelia Poole, & Nick Thieme

       (Reprinted with permission from the Atlanta Constitution)

 

In air and soil, the history of environmental inequality

https://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2022/02/georgia-air-soil-history-environmental-inequality/

"We've Been Studied to Death, We Ain't Gotten Anything”:

(Re)claiming environmental knowledge production through the praxis of writing collectives

Footnote

Ellen Yen-Kohl

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The Newtown Florist Club Writing Collective

Pages 52-67 | Published online: 27 Jan 2016

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Advocating for a Just Community:

Building a better world, Women and Climate Change Justice (Agnes Scott College)​https://conferences.agnesscott.org/WGLC2021/building-a-better-world/advocating-for-just-communities-health-climate-community-action/

(https://youtu.be/D1imcwdR3nk)

(Youtube Video)

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Not In My Backyard' - Environmental Justice 101

ByMarshall Shepherd,

Senior Contributor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/06/12/not-in-my-backyard-environmental-justice-101/

How after 70 years, Newtown Florist Club keeps advocating for health of historic black community

Posted by RSS Feed | Feb 2, 2020 | Sympathy Flowers News

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Nicole Pressley  9/1/2020 (UUworld.org)

https://www.uuworld.org/articles/uu-vote-fall-update

The Times - Gainesville, Ga

Written by: Ben Anderson

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/newtown-florist-club-raises-questions-040100374.html

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