Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste “Sometimes living here is like being in a time capsule,” a community activist said. “This is about white supremacy.”

Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste “Sometimes living here is like being in a time capsule,” a community activist said. “This is about white supremacy.” By Fred Clasen-Kelly, Daniel Chang, Olga Pierce, The Trace, and Yona Gavino, Action News Jax Oct. 27, 2026 https://kffhealthnews.org/race-and-health/jacksonville-jax-florida-gun-firearm-violence-redlining-lead-poisoning/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jH3UO3K7kPVC-GnIXDfieY2TeTszFlgTYKgMY9XUNMrvfn06Ih2sdfu_C9d1L1jWGA8MYBvGxnaqtT01iCAj_PSts3g&_hsmi=446143823&utm_content=446143823&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted In Redlining And Homes Built On Toxic Waste In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up elementary school named for famed educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune sits in a 250-acre site once called “Brown’s Dump.” The dump emerged in an era of redlining, systematic racism that divided American cities large and small. From the late 1940s until the mid-1950s, the city operated a landfill here, heaping toxic ash from nearby municipal incinerators. (Clasen-Kelly, Chang, Pierce and Gavino, 10/27)