Audio Postcards

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.

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.

Hurricane Fiona's arrival in Puerto Rico on Sunday came almost exactly five years after Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island, causing thousands of deaths and widespread destruction.

John Charles said Queen Elizabeth had a profound impact on his life ever since he saw her as a teenager.

Said one resident: "I love the fact that the rest of the world loved Queen Elizabeth. She represented Great Britain in a wonderful light."