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Tampa
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
An orator and a seamstress: Tampa's pivotal role in shaping Black history
For descendants of those buried at erased Black cemeteries, work never stops to honor ancestry
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
328 graves from Black cemetery are under company and Clearwater road
Tampa creates new task force to address erased, destroyed African American cemeteries
Lost African-American cemetery in Tampa to be memorialized during housing redevelopment
McKenna Kelley and Michaela Mulligan - 57 Black-Owned Tampa Bay Businesses to Support
New EPA-funded progrvam at USF helps Tampa residents secure careers in the environmental sector
Art provides a rare glimpse at Tampa’s historic Black neighborhoods
Eric Koenig and Lori Collins, Ph.D. - The Jackson Rooming House Remembered and Re-envisioned
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
How 3 killings by police sparked past Tampa Bay riots
St. Petersburg
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
Since 1873, Florida’s Black newspapers have advocated, informed, and reflected lives often ignored by Kenya Woodard
Reese and Wilson receive keys to the city by Nicole Slaughter Graham
St. Petersburg African American Heritage Trail To Go Digital By Jacob Wentz
Geveryl Robinson - After Geroge Floyd's Murder, American Needs A Eye Exam
St. Petersburg’s African-American Heritage Trail to launch digital history tours
Sarasota
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