Hidden History –

Hidden History: Civil Rights Advances, Part 2

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Civil rights in St. Petersburg made considerable progress during…

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A report reveals the proportion of Americans with…

Despite tremendous obstacles, these men and women fought for their own financial…

This year brings the 50th anniversary of the federal Civil Rights Act, a landmark law…

If the landmark Supreme Court case were repurposed as a modern-day legal drama, here are…

Tracing Your Roots: A primer for using the Federal Writers Project collection, among…

BY HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. George Washington Williams didn’t travel to the Congo in 1890…

BY HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. Zora Neale Hurston once wrote with characteristic irony that…

Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 78: What role did Lord Mansfield’s mixed-race…

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Campbell Park has been an important community recreation asset…

BY JENÉE DESMOND-HARRIS Despite the standard Black History Month lessons you may have…

BY JON WILSON, Columnist The community has lost a treasure trove of history and wisdom…

BY JON WILSON, Columnist Many old-timers in the community, and some not so old, recall…

A regular vendor at downtown’s Saturday Morning Market, Brady Johnson is the familiar…

James Baldwin—novelist, essayist and simply one of the greatest writers of all…

A Mecca for baseball’s spring training since 1914, St. Petersburg in 1961 became a…

In its day, the Ambassadors Club was among St. Petersburg’s most influential groups in…

Dr. Gilbert Henry Leggett is remembered fondly as an African-American dental pioneer in…