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Tampa
2023 New Stories
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
2022 News Stories
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 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
328 graves from Black cemetery are under company and Clearwater roadAug 5 | Tampa Bay 10
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
2023 News Stories
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
2022 News Stories
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
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
* These may reference USF Sarasota-Manatee. In 2026, the Sarasota-Manatee campus was transitioned to new ownership. It's now apart of the New College of Florida system. *
2022 News Stories
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
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