Associated PressMarch 7, 2021
5min1279
'Every eligible voter should be able to vote.'
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Associated PressMarch 7, 2021
Kelly HayesJanuary 18, 2021
3min700
The video juxtaposes Civil Rights movements of the past with present day racial divides.
Associated PressJuly 18, 2020
6min378
When racism and brutality met righteousness and courage.
Phil AmmannApril 1, 20166min223
I don’t know if it will be cold or raining, and I’m not sure how many people will be there, but I know I won’t be alone. On the morning of April 2, I’ll be in Philadelphia, more specifically, at the Liberty Bell, preparing for the first leg of a 140-mile walk to the nation’s […]
Martin DyckmanMarch 8, 2015
8min257
After state troopers, sheriff’s deputies savagely attacked voting rights marchers at Selma, Ala., with clubs, tear gas and cattle prods on March 7, 1965, two great Americans rushed to the city to try to take command of the perilous situation. One was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., determined to lead a second march – regardless […]
Martin DyckmanMarch 8, 20158min273
After state troopers, sheriff’s deputies savagely attacked voting rights marchers at Selma, Ala., with clubs, tear gas and cattle prods on March 7, 1965, two great Americans rushed to the city to try to take command of the perilous situation. One was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., determined to lead a second march – regardless […]
Daniel TilsonMarch 8, 20156min179
You’d think 50 years was long enough for Florida lawmakers to get something right. But when it comes to ensuring all Floridians have equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote, and then overwhelmingly choose to use it, most of us know we’ve still got a long way to go. Here we are, fresh off […]
Peter SchorschMarch 8, 2015
2min263
Representative Gwen Graham traveled to Selma, Alabama, this weekend, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Graham attended a service at Brown Chapel AME Church, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil Rights Memorial, and she joined Rep. John Lewis in a march across the landmark bridge. “It was an […]
Mitch PerryMarch 3, 20156min176
The most lackluster campaign that this reporter has covered in his 15 years living in Tampa comes to a conclusion tonight — at least for most of the candidates vying to win the five Tampa City Council seats up for election. There’s not much drama. Though there has been a lot of coverage of the […]
Mitch PerryMarch 2, 2015
7min177
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa will be of one of about 100 members of Congress to participate in the 50th anniversary of the march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend. The original march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge was one of the crucial civil rights march that led to the historic […]