Florida education restrictions spur community ‘teach-ins’ on Black history
Jacqueline Hubbard, right, who heads the St. Petersburg Association for the Study of…
ASALH
ASALH’s seventh annual Black History Month celebration featured award-winning filmmaker
Filmmaker Valerie Scoon discussed her award-winning documentary at ASALH’s Black…
In 2023, let us revisit the need for ‘Freedom Schools’
In 1964, during the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) “Freedom…
Maroon communities in America
Leonard Parkinson, Maroon Leader, Jamaica, 1796 By Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., ASALH,…
1877: The end of Reconstruction and the beginning of American apartheid
An 1867 illustration depicting Black people participating in a New Orleans election…
The Black coaches of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Harold Goodwin, assistant head coach and running game coordinator; Keith Armstrong,…
Recollections, reflections, remembrances and racial reconciliation in St. Pete – now is the time
By Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., ASALH President In the coming weeks, Pinellas County…
Dr. Ernest Everett Just: The father of black scientists
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr.…
First lynching memorial marker to document local history of racial violence
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH ST. PETERSBURG — A coalition of…
Dr. Ernest Everett Just: The father of black scientists
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr.…
Black History Month: Let’s revisit the terror of our history
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Dr. Carter G. Woodson is called the…
The importance of Jan. 1 in America
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH One hundred and fifty-seven years ago,…
Racial terrorism in America
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The word “terror” is…
Sundown towns
Black people were not allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…
The struggle for the Civil War Amendments
After Reconstruction, the provision that allowed involuntary servitude for those…
The color line is still with us
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the…
Ida B. Wells Barnett and the Anti-Lynching Movement
Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching…
The Equal Justice Initiative and what it has taught us
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26,…