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Tampa Bay takes up the #BuyBlack trend for the holidays

By Gypsy C. Gallardo, Contributor TAMPA BAY — “It’s time to stop talking about it;…

  • December 1, 2016
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler: The first Black woman awarded a medical degree in the United States

By Meserette Kentake, Kentake Page “I early conceived a liking for, and sought every…

  • November 3, 2016
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

At 81, Disney’s First African-American Animator Still In Studio

If you’ve seen Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book or the Toy Story movies,…

  • September 1, 2016
  • Author TWC
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The Black Lives Matter movement is very real

Dear Editor, We are a nation mourning the five police officers killed in a brutal and…

  • July 14, 2016
  • Author TWC
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Meet the 11-year-old girl who scored $11 million deal with Whole Foods

An 11-year-old Texas girl has just scored a sweet $11 million deal with Whole Foods to…

  • April 4, 2016
  • Author TWC
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The African American Health Forum

BY RAVEN JOY SHONEL, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – The African American Health Forum…

  • November 12, 2015
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

9 Facts About Macon Bolling Allen

1. Macon Bolling Allen was born a free man in Indiana in 1816. His birth name was Allen…

  • July 2, 2015
  • Author TWC
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    • In The Community

DAR honors Catherine Crumbs

BY HOLLY KESTENIS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – Friends and family gathered to honor a…

  • November 20, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • In The Community

Celebrating 17 years of page turning action

Meet artist G-Baby on November 29th BY MARCY PALMERI, Contributor ST. PETERSBURG —…

  • November 20, 2014
  • Author TWC
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President Obama chooses Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, first African American woman

President Barack Obama will announce his intent to nominate prosecutor Loretta Lynch for…

  • November 8, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

Amendment 2: Florida’s smoking gun

BY REVEREND O’NEAL DOZIER Pot, weed, reefer, grass—whatever you call it, it is still…

  • October 16, 2014
  • Author TWC
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Why did Malcolm X go to Oxford?

Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 95: What did Malcolm X do at Oxford University? “It…

  • October 16, 2014
  • Author TWC
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‘Are you fully black?’

BY: PERRYE PROCTOR, Strategy and Business Development Associate I am a 23-year-old,…

  • October 16, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

Plot for Peace: The story you didn’t know about the end of apartheid

How history is told often depends on who tells it first, which also means it is their…

  • October 16, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

The ‘token’ black girl

BY LIANA WEEKS, student at Smith College A close friend once sent me a quote that went…

  • October 16, 2014
  • Author TWC
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Black teen mistaken for burglar, pepper sprayed in his white foster parents’ home

Police officers pepper sprayed a black teenager in his white foster parents’ home…

  • October 9, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

‘Gone With the Wind’ and its pernicious place in history

Well, fiddledeedee, as Scarlett O’Hara might exclaim: Gone With the Wind, the epic…

  • October 2, 2014
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

Who were the 1st black Federal Court judges?

BY: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 93: How did black justices…

  • October 2, 2014
  • Author TWC
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