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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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    • Health & Beauty

Swim with Kym aims to change the Black community’s relationship with water   

Kymbriell Finch, owner of Swim with Kym, teaches water safety and drowning prevention…

  • 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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Gas Plant/Laurel Park Reunion, part 2

Although living conditions in the complex had deteriorated by the time the city broke…

  • November 12, 2021
  • Author TWC
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  • Diversity
  • Featured

Desegregating pioneers of Pinellas County Schools

Gwendolyn Reese, president African American Heritage Association St. Petersburg BY FRANK…

  • December 23, 2020
  • Author TWC
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    • In The Community

St. Pete’s infamous green benches

Pictured here is an original green bench, now sitting in front of Mordecai Walker’s…

  • October 30, 2020
  • Author TWC
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City honors the Courageous 12 with plaque at new police building

BY ROGER CLENDENING, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – The City of St. Petersburg, a…

  • November 1, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Black History: Front & Center
  • Featured

Segregation in America

A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…

  • July 18, 2019
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

Sumter County, Ala., just got its first integrated school. Yes, in 2018.

By Antonia Noori Farzan | Washington Post On a typically steamy Alabama summer day in…

  • August 16, 2018
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

Two little-known events in Texas that threatened the progression of the Civil Rights movement

By Coshandra Dillard | Timeline Most Americans have learned, or at least heard, about…

  • January 4, 2018
  • Author TWC
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  • Health & Beauty

Racial Segregation and How It Impacts the Health of Poor Americans

  Nareissa Smith | Atlanta Black Star Home is where the heart is, but it is also…

  • August 24, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

By TERRY GROSS | 90.5 WESA In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal…

  • May 4, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Hidden History

29 Disturbing Pictures Of American Life Under Jim Crow

Photo: Getty Images By Gabriel H. Sanchez, BuzzFeed // More at BuzzFeed Until the Civil…

  • March 2, 2017
  • Author TWC
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  • Sports

Ex-Illinois women’s basketball players sue for ‘segregated practices and punishing blacks’

Seven former University of Illinois women’s basketball players sued the university…

  • July 2, 2015
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about racism

By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo The Good Men Project  Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains why white…

  • May 7, 2015
  • Author TWC
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  • Black Culture

An open letter to black America: Why you should want the Redskins’ name changed, too

BY GYASI ROSS Ross, Author, attorney, and member of the Blackfeet Nation and Suquamish…

  • October 2, 2014
  • Author TWC
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‘Freedom Summer’ friends, 50 years later

During the ‘Freedom Summer,’ activists from the North traveled to Mississippi…

  • June 19, 2014
  • Author TWC
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Schools more segregated now than three decades ago

BY GEORGE E. CURRY As we approach May 17, the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…

  • April 25, 2014
  • Author TWC
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