America Amplified

The idea for the PCTA FYRE podcast, out weekly on Spotify, arose due to the vast amount of legislative changes in Florida affecting teacher pay, class sizes, curriculum and more.

As part of WUSF’s ongoing series asking for your stories about Black history, we hear from ancestral funk artist Siobhan Monique.

Said Gail Dudley, a retired osteopathic doctor in Hillsborough County: "We have a history of discrimination, which we can change, but not if we sugarcoat it and cover it up."

Olympia Baylou had a successful career in finance for many years before she switched to teaching middle school full time.

"We can't learn from the past if we don't even acknowledge that it existed."

As part of our series featuring your voices on Black History Month, professor Cheryl Rodriguez says students are hungry for this knowledge.

On Black History Month, listeners share their stories about discovering their connections to the past. We hear from a white woman who recently discovered that she has Black ancestry.

Erica and her daughter, Khrystian, are involved with a group called The Billionaire Babies, which teaches children about money, entrepreneurship and creating generational wealth.

As part of our ongoing series asking for your stories about Black history, we hear from an educator who recalls hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final Sunday sermon before he was killed.

Dr. Washington Hill is speaking on the issue this week at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's 43rd annual pregnancy meeting in San Francisco.

The Sarasota school board is hearing a final appeal Tuesday by a Venice mother who wants to ban a book from school libraries.

February is Black History Month, and WUSF is featuring the voices of educators, historians and people in the Greater Tampa Bay region who have been moved by learning a piece of Black history.