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Tampa
2022 News Stories
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 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
2021 News Stories
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
Tampa creates new task force to address erased, destroyed African American cemeteries
Jun 29 | News Channel 8Lost 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
2020 News Stories
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
2022 News Stories
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
2021 News Stories
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 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
Sarasota
2022 News Stories
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
2021 News Stories
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