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The Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and Arts honored Davis for his work as a photojournalist and diplomat.

Protesters continue to take to the streets around the Tampa Bay area with heightened passion after a Kentucky grand jury decided to not indict any police officers in the death of Breonna Taylor. More often than not, a group of legal observers is trailing them.

For many African Americans, patriotism is complicated because the promises of America aren't fulfilled equally. The Fourth of July brings a challenge: reconciling national pride with systemic racism.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Josie Johnson reflect on the civil rights movement and the protests following the death of George Floyd. "We're not going to give up. We're not going to stop," Jackson says.

State health officials are sharing the addresses of patients who test positive for COVID-19 with first responders. The goal is to inform them about areas…

The Georgia congressman, who spent decades fighting racial discrimination, says he's mounting his biggest battle yet: stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Lewis will stay in office as he undergoes treatment.

  Fifty years ago, a college football game in Tampa helped change the course of race relations in America. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November…

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…

During this weekend’s opening reception of their updated exhibition, “Beaches, Benches, and Boycotts: The Civil Rights Movement in Tampa Bay,” the Florida…

When he was just 26 years old, Emmet Jopling Bondurant II argued and won a foundational voting rights case in the Supreme Court. This week, he returns to take on partisan redistricting.

The speculation surrounding a string of mail bombs harks back to another era in American history, when bombs were a tool of political intimidation and when bombings were blamed on the victims.

Historic markers memorializing two sites important to St. Augustine’s civil rights movement of the 1960s were ripped off their buildings over the past...