Rev. Alvin Miller, educator, businessman and civil rights leader, dies
Rev. Alvin Miller’s Homegoing Services are set for 11 a.m. Saturday, July 10 at First…
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC calls press conference for justice in Florida
BY RAVEN JOY SHONEL, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Representatives from Florida’s…
The phenomenal women of Freedom Summer
Joyce Ladner BY DIAMOND SHARP, The Root Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom…
A storm is brewing, a cautionary tale
Dear Editor, It has been for a long time… We all heard about the public “closed door…
Cancer Awareness Gala
BY HOLLY KESTENIS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – Most people can tell you of a friend…
Memories of LBJ, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist Covering the three-day celebration of the…
Ella Baker: My Civil Rights Heroine
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest…
St. Pete Seniors are Being Taken for a Ride
The Pinellas County chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and…
YMCA Community Conversation Hosts Bernard LaFayette, Jr.
ST. PETERSBURG — YWCA Tampa Bay will hold a Community Conversation featuring Dr.…
Charlie Crist Book Signing in St. Pete
St. Petersburg was all abuzz last Saturday with the arrival off former governor Charlie…