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Dear Reader: Be Like the Diamond in the Rough

A piece inspired by recent time spent with my grandfather Dear Reader, I’m not…

Former Cannon Street YMCA Little League players Vermort “Pop” Brown, center, and Carl…

STRAZ Center for the Performing Arts’ second annual Juneteenth commemoration,…

Local griot Gwendolyn Reese will join Green Book of Tampa Bay for an upcoming anniversary…

On Feb. 23, the Community Remembrance Project Coalition and the Equal Justice Initiative…

Dr. Charles Dew sat down with Gwendolyn Reese, president of the African American Heritage…

Commissioned by the City of St. Petersburg, former slave turned entrepreneur and city…

Owners: Skip Richardson and Gigi Best-Richardson Years in Business: 23 years Location:…

Jason Byrne, Medium It must have seemed like a lifetime ago to Julius “July” Perry…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH People with little can give a lot in…

BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer As the 114th edition of the Fall Classic is upon us, we…

In an article entitled “The Heartbeat of Racism is Denial,” author Ibrahim X. Kendi…

By Gwendolyn Reese, Contributor MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Recently, I was in Montgomery,…

The Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., grew into the most famous and prosperous black…

The Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., grew into the most famous and prosperous black…

Black-owned businesses began to evolve as African Americans established social and…

Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in…

By Jennifer Gamble-Theard Florida has a very special place in African-American history.…