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Residents gather at a prayer vigil Sunday for the victims of a mass shooting a day earlier in Jacksonville, Fla.

Residents gather at a prayer vigil Sunday for the victims of a mass shooting a day earlier in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Jacksonville shootings refocus attention on city’s racist past and the struggle to move on

By some measures, Jacksonville was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism still fester in the Florida city.