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,…
Reconstruction: The second Civil War
Portrait of the first Black senator, H. M. Revels of Mississippi (far left) and Black…
The 1920 Ocoee massacre
Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre By Attorney Jacqueline…
Segregation in America
A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…
Woodson Museum plans to expand are not daunted by DeSantis’ veto
Local historian and columnist Gwendolyn Reese is the president of St. Pete’s African…
Love and Kriseman: Push the reset button
Dear Editor: The St. Petersburg Branch NAACP is respectfully calling for the St.…
The continuous pursuit of civil rights
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., ASALH Historian People of the African Diaspora have…
His death and its meaning
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Most of us can remember where we were…
The compromise that ended Reconstruction
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH When the Civil War ended in 1865, the…
Mr. White House-Chief-of-Staff meets Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and black women: A tutorial, Part 1
Congresswoman Frederica Smith Wilson By Dr. Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich Many occasions…
Plessy v. Ferguson: The beginning of Jim Crow
By Jacqueline Hubbard After Reconstruction, the United States Supreme Court on May 18,…
I AM Parker Watson
The Parker Watson lynching brought outcries from a number of people including St.…
I AM: John Evans
John Evans was brutally lynched and shot on Nov. 12, 1914, by a mob of 1,500 white men,…
St. Pete celebrates Juneteenth
BY RAVEN JOY SHONEL, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — The Midtown Celebrity Club, Inc.…
From enslavement to mass incarceration
By Gwendolyn Reese, Contributor MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Recently, I was in Montgomery,…
Black Wall Street: A legacy of success, part 2
The Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., grew into the most famous and prosperous black…
Memorable Moments: “NAACP launches drive for 5,000 new members”
By Gwendolyn Reese The headline “NAACP launches drive for 5,000 new members” appeared…
Race and professional progress
Lena Horne was the first African-American elected to serve on the Screen Actors Guild…