Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon is defending a wall inside her Jacksonville bookstore that features Assata Shakur, the convicted murderer and Black Liberation Army member once placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. Nixon described Shakur and others on the display as “civil rights leaders” while responding to criticism of the portraits. The Democratic Socialists of America member now faces Republican Senator Ashley Moody in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. Her answer has added another controversy to a campaign already marked by her praise for Shakur.
The dispute focuses on Cafe Resistance, the far-left bookstore and coffee shop Nixon opened in 2024. Nixon said she opened the shop because “we had our freedoms coming under attack” and “there were no places for us to be safely.” She described it as a space “where people are learning their history, where we can convene and we can meet and we can learn and we can power-build.” The shop’s walls include portraits of Shakur and activist Angela Davis.
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