Anne GeggisFebruary 23, 2023
5min0
The bill would create a state program to guard the eternal rest of African Americans buried during the era of segregation.
Tag: segregation
Anne GeggisFebruary 23, 2023
Rosanne DunkelbergerJanuary 5, 2023
5min0
She reported for several Florida newspapers, including the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times.
Associated PressJanuary 5, 2022
7min546
Plessy v Ferguson went to SCOTUS, ushering in the “separate but equal” era of segregation.
Janelle Irwin TaylorSeptember 5, 2019
6min440
The site contains the graves of at least 120 African Americans.
Jim RosicaMay 22, 2019
6min631
"It would be a great way to honor him."
Martin DyckmanDecember 23, 2016
9min492
Thanks to Vladimir Putin‘s hackers and his outlets in the American press, we know that Hillary Clinton said different things in public and in private. Imagine that. But I suspect that you couldn’t find very many politicians (or other people, for that matter) who don’t speak differently depending on who’s listening. Money could safely be […]
Bill RuftyFebruary 6, 2016
10min466
JJ Corbett is a hero of World War II, but more importantly he’s a hero of the human spirit. He took on a mission kept so secret that only in the past decade or two has it been made public. And he was injured on that mission. But Corbett, now 92, from Bartow, was never […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 28, 2015
2min335
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, an alumnus of Florida A & M, has a clear understanding of the importance of historically black colleges and universities, and to that end, her Land Grant Opportunity Act, introduced on Monday, is intended to redress funding inequities. Her news media office asserted on Wednesday that “the “Land Grant Opportunity Act … […]
Melissa RossAugust 12, 2015
7min263
Many Americans are familiar with the famed pioneers of racial integration in sports: Jackie Robinson with the Dodgers, or Althea Gibson at Wimbledon. But after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, many lesser-known African-American athletes also became firsts in their sport, and faced a lonely and sometimes terrifying road. One of them was […]
Marc YachtJuly 1, 20155min287
Many skeletons exist in Northern city closets espousing Black oppression. Black Northern migration after the Civil War is important history for all Americans to understand. The South has no lock on racism. However, the recent South Carolina church killings by a demented young white supremacist rekindles a stark realization. The fires of racial hatred remain […]