Black Life in Tampa Bay

Feb 21 | WTFS Tampa Bay
The man who started one of Tampa's first African American neighborhoods

Feb 01 | Bay New 9
Tampa native offers tours of historic Central Avenue West

Dec 13 | Tampa Bay Times
Tampa residents want Italian Club to stop parking on Black and Cuban graves

Dec 11 | Tampa Bay Times
Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies in Tampa at 84

June 14 | WUSF
After becoming a federal holiday last year, Juneteenth in Tampa Bay takes on a new significance

May 19 | Tampa Bay Times 
Florida House Democrats could tap Tampa’s Fentrice Driskell as next leader

May 16 | Tampa Bay Times
Florida’s Emancipation Day is this week

May 3 | Tampa Bay Times
4 East Tampa homes may sit atop a Black cemetery with 430 graves

Feb 15 | ABC Action News
An orator and a seamstress: Tampa's pivotal role in shaping Black historyFeb 9 | Fox 13 News
For descendants of those buried at erased Black cemeteries, work never stops to honor ancestryFeb 2, 2022 | Tampa Bay Times
It’s a matter of dignity and justice to acknowledge African American cemetery erasure

Nov 19 | The Weekly Challenger
Gas Plant/Laurel Park Reunion: Making it happen

Sept 14 | WUSF Public Media
Tampa Bay-Based Project Continues The Work Of Highlighting Unearthed Cemeteries

Sept 1 |Tampa Bay Times
328 graves from Black cemetery are under company and Clearwater roadAug 5 | Tampa Bay 10

Tampa creates new task force to address erased, destroyed African American cemeteries

Jun 29 | News Channel 8
Lost African-American cemetery in Tampa to be memorialized during housing redevelopmentMay 17 | Tampa Magazines
McKenna Kelley and Michaela Mulligan - 57 Black-Owned Tampa Bay Businesses to SupportMay 14 | USF University News
New EPA-funded progrvam at USF helps Tampa residents secure careers in the environmental sectorFeb. 23 | Tampa Bay Times
Art provides a rare glimpse at Tampa’s historic Black neighborhoodsFeb. 19 | USF Library News
Eric Koenig and Lori Collins, Ph.D. - The Jackson Rooming House Remembered and Re-envisionedFeb. 19 | USF University News
Africana Studies fosters broad intellectual perspectives that lead to impactful careers

Sept 16, 2020 | USF Newsroom
New digitally produced sculpture celebrates African American history in Tampa Bay

June 22, 2020 | Tampa Bay Times
Graves have been found at Tampa’s lost Zion Cemetery

June 9, 2020 | 83 degrees
We’ve been here before: A brief history of race relations in Tampa

June 3, 2020 | Tampa Bay Times
How 3 killings by police sparked past Tampa Bay riots

Feb 24 | The Weekly Challenger
Documentary exploring the Bay’s rich Black history debuted at the Woodson Museum

Feb 24 | The Weekly Challenger
Oral histories of erased Black cemeteries: Corey Givens, Jr.

Feb 24 | The Weekly Challenger
In 2023, let us revisit the need for ‘Freedom Schools’

Feb 2 | The Weekly Challenger
Building a better path forward by acknowledging the past

Feb 2 | The Weekly Challenger
Oral histories of erased Black cemeteries: Gwendolyn Reese

Feb 1 | AARP Livable Communities
Before the Highway: St. Petersburg, Florida

Jan 10 | The Weekly Challenger
Remembering Rosewood 100 years after massacre

Jan 5 | The Weekly Challenger
‘Imagine Blackness’ begins Jan. 19 at Creative Pinellas

Jan 5 | The Weekly Challenger
‘Poor People’s Art’ exhibition at USF thru March 4

Oct 17 | Tampa Bay Times
How the teens of St. Pete Youth Farm fight food insecurity, one harvest at a time

May 16 | The Suncoast News
Chinsegut Hill Historic Site to host Florida Emancipation Day event

Feb 15 | WFTS Tampa Bay News
St. Pete little free libraries hope to highlight Black voices with books

Nov 19 | The Weekly Challenger
Gas Plant/Laurel Park Reunion: Making it happen

Sept 24 | Catalyst
Waveney Ann Moore: Ministerial group signs on to the budding Deuces renaissance by Waveney Ann Moore

Sept 14 | Florida Humanities
Since 1873, Florida’s Black newspapers have advocated, informed, and reflected lives often ignored by Kenya WoodardSept 2 | The Weekly Challenger
Reese and Wilson receive keys to the city by Nicole Slaughter GrahamAug 11 | WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7
St. Petersburg African American Heritage Trail To Go Digital By Jacob WentzMay 21 | Tampa Bay Times
Geveryl Robinson - After Geroge Floyd's Murder, American Needs A Eye ExamMay 11, 2021 | Tampa Bay Times
St. Petersburg’s African-American Heritage Trail to launch digital history tours

Oct 13 | WUSF Public Media
How one Sarasota health clinic is breaking down barriers to care in Black communities

Aug 19 | The Bradenton Times 
USF Professors Study Civil Rights Movement During REACH Montgomery Museum Studies

Aug 16 | USF Newsroom
USF professors study the civil rights movement during REACH Montgomery Museum Studies program in Alabama

Jul 21 | Tampa Bay Newswire
USF professors participate in Center for PAInT’s museum studies initiative in Montgomery, Ala.

Jan 14 | USF Newsroom
USF Sarasota-Manatee campus donates to area homeless as part of MLK Day of Service

Jan 11 | Sarasota Magazine 
Dr. Lisa Merritt on Epigenetics, Access and Equity in Health Care

Nov 30 | The Daily Sun
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe presents ‘Joyful! Joyful!'

Oct 25 | WUSF Public Media
‘Black Lives Matter’ removed from Sarasota 5th grade curriculum due to critical race theory concerns

Oct 18 | 
USF center director lands historic $8.5 million arts learning grant, the largest award ever for the Sarasota-Manatee campus