Associated PressJanuary 21, 2024
3min0
The headstones at the Port Tampa Cemetery were removed during construction of the base in the late 1930s, but the bodies remained there.
Tag: Yvette Lewis
Associated PressJanuary 21, 2024
Creative LoafingNovember 29, 2022
8min0
'Is it safe to simply ask the CEO's willingness to spare all of this and ask her willingness to resign?'
Daniel Figueroa IVMarch 25, 2022
6min0
O’Connor has been performing the duties of Chief since her selection was announced in February.
Daniel Figueroa IVMarch 17, 2022
10min0
Council members approved the controversial choice in a split vote.
Daniel Figueroa IVDecember 17, 2021
9min1221
It's now up to the Legislature to accept or reject the Task Force recommendations.
Daniel Figueroa IVNovember 30, 2021
7min743
Members said "abandoned" might not be the most accurate description of those cemeteries, as many were systematically ignored.
Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 10, 2020
6min534
Black leaders demand transparency, oversight and police reform.
Drew WilsonNovember 3, 2018
4min415
Tampa attorney Todd Marks, a candidate for Hillsborough County Commission, said he was standing in solidarity with the county NAACP chapter in the wake of a death threat it received for its opposition to the transit sales tax slated for the general election ballot. The death threat came in via a letter, postmarked from St. […]
Mitch PerryOctober 13, 2017
11min661
In one of the highest profile appearances since her election in July as chair the Hillsborough County NAACP, Yvette Lewis took a shot at some of the most prominent establishment names in Tampa. During Friday’s Cafe Con Tampa at the Oxford Exchange, Lewis shared brutally honest thoughts on several topics: A lack of diversity at the University […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 23, 2015
5min349
The attacks keep coming in the Patrick Murphy-Alan Grayson Democratic U.S. Senate primary, and it’s only the first day of fall. Early on in Grayson’s remarks to the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee on Monday night in Tampa, the Orlando congressman and 2016 aspirant said the Democratic Party was a club, but not just any […]