African American history

Founder Gwendolyn Reese has long desired to share the city’s African American history online. The coronavirus pandemic helped put the project in motion.

A goal to create an African American Art Center and History Museum in Sarasota is getting closer to reality. This fall, a historic home will be moved to the city's Newtown neighborhood as a starter facility.

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…