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ASALH’s seventh annual Black History Month celebration featured award-winning filmmaker

Filmmaker Valerie Scoon discussed her award-winning documentary at ASALH’s Black…

  • March 25, 2023
  • Author Editor
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‘A Visual History of Civil Rights & Social Change in Pinellas County,’ Part 3

Like many other public spaces, Black people were not allowed to sit on St. Pete’s…

  • August 4, 2022
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture
  • Featured

‘A Visual History of Civil Rights & Social Change in Pinellas County,’ Part 2

During Jim Crow St. Petersburg, Mercy Hospital was the only hospital that would serve…

  • July 21, 2022
  • Author TWC
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Segregated Sand: Florida’s Beaches in the Civil Rights Movement

With more than 1,300 miles of coastline, Black Floridians had to contend with the issue…

  • November 12, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Black History: Front & Center
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The end of Reconstruction and its continuing effects

The debate over Reconstruction and the Freedmen’s Bureau was nationwide. This 1866…

  • July 1, 2021
  • Author TWC
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How a 1946 Case of Police Brutality Against a Black WWII Veteran Shaped the Fight for Civil Rights

Read the full article here.

  • April 16, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Diversity
  • Featured

Askia Muhammad Aquil receives key to the city

Mayor Rick Kriseman presented Askia Muhammad Aquil with the key to the city on March 18…

  • April 1, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Diversity
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Recapturing the social identity of the Black church

Outside of a Black church in Little Rock, Ark., 1935 BY REV. PIERRE LOOMIS WILLIAMS,…

  • April 1, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

The Civil Rights Legend Who Opposed Critical Race Theory

Read the full article here.

  • March 19, 2021
  • Author TWC
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Benches, Beaches & Boycotts—the Civil Rights Movement in Tampa Bay

Black people were only allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…

  • February 19, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Politics

Years in Atlanta City Hall tested Lewis’ mettle

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  • July 18, 2020
  • Author TWC
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Then and now: USF St. Petersburg professors weigh in on historic parallels of the BLM Movement

The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington…

  • July 9, 2020
  • Author TWC
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  • Education
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Harry Lee, Willie Mae and Fannie Lou: ‘Lest we forget’

BY GOLIATH J. DAVIS, III, PH.D., Contributor ST. PETERSBURG — I am asked why I am…

  • June 4, 2020
  • Author TWC
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Opening reception of local Civil Rights Movement exhibition

Panelist Fred Hearns, Gwendolyn Reese and Victoria Oldham discussed the Civil Rights…

  • September 13, 2019
  • Author TWC
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Civil rights legend visits St. Pete

Ernest Patton, Jr. and Rev. Jana Hall-Perkins, senior pastor of McCabe United Methodist…

  • March 14, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

“You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West”

By Chauncey Devega | Salon “Green Book” won three awards, including Best…

  • March 14, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Black History: Front & Center
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1968: A pivotal year of change

Robert Kennedy and Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy toured the damages after days of rioting in…

  • February 7, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

On Jackie Robinson’s 100th Birthday, Celebrate A Man Whose Impact Was Bigger Than Baseball

By Aaron Homer | Inquisitr Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of baseball…

  • January 31, 2019
  • Author TWC
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