African American history

Students in the greater Tampa Bay region are learning more about the history of their communities through an educational project involving African American cemeteries.

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

Members of a task force would recommend strategies for identifying, recording, and memorializing neglected and abandoned black cemeteries.

Cadaver dogs and archaeologists began searching Tuesday for a lost cemetery that may be located in an area of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.It's the…

Tampa isn't the only place where long-lost African American graveyards have been found.Although two have been discovered in the bay area, and more sites…

MacDill Air Force Base will start an investigation in January into reports that a lost African American cemetery could be inside its gates.The cemetery…

The Vinik Family Foundation has committed up to $1 million to help restore Tampa's only African American boarding house during segregation.“As Tampa…

Author Gilbert King won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2013 book, "Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America." His…

Last fall, a cemetery historian came upon a few death certificates from a little-known Tampa burial ground called Zion and he wanted help to learn more…

The city of Sarasota is taking a stand for its African American community of Newtown by launching a program to preserve its historic properties.The Newton…

Sarasota’s first African-American community, Overtown, will be in the spotlight during a Newtown History Makers panel next week.Overtown, a segregated…

Across the nation, African-Americans are celebrating Juneteenth – June 19 th - as the day the Emancipation Proclamation was read in Texas, making it the...