1877: The end of Reconstruction and the beginning of American apartheid
An 1867 illustration depicting Black people participating in a New Orleans election…
Black History: Front & Center
The Black coaches of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Harold Goodwin, assistant head coach and running game coordinator; Keith Armstrong,…
The Tuskegee study and the Black fear of medical experimentation
Doctor drawing blood from a patient as part of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study By Attorney…
Recollections, reflections, remembrances and racial reconciliation in St. Pete – now is the time
By Jacqueline Williams Hubbard, Esq., ASALH President In the coming weeks, Pinellas…
Dr. Ernest Everett Just: The father of black scientists
By Attorney Jacqueline Williams Hubbard Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr. Ernest…
Dr. Ernest Everett Just: The father of black scientists
By Attorney Jacqueline Williams Hubbard Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr. Ernest…
Black History Month: Let’s revisit the terror of our history
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President Dr. Carter G. Woodson is called the…
Let us remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, ASALH President Most of us can remember where we were on…
The importance of Jan, 1 in America
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., President, ASALH One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the…
Racial terrorism in America
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President The word “terror” is defined by…
Sundown towns
Black people were only 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,…
Affirmative Action is on life support
Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the…
400 Years: Commemoration of those who came first
The Tucker family can trace their lineage back to William, the first documented African…
Reconstruction: The second Civil War
Portrait of the first black senator, H. M. Revels of Mississippi (far left) and black…