Black History

The Black Cemetery Network, formed in the Tampa Bay area, hosted its first national conference in St. Petersburg. Founder Antoinette Jackson says Florida is "leading the national conversation" on the work to identify, preserve, and record African American burial grounds and their equally buried histories.

Thousands of Black cemeteries have been destroyed, built over or fallen into disrepair. Hear about a movement to protect them that started at USF.

Bending the Arc, a program created by the Boxser Diversity Initiative in Sarasota, offers high school students in Sarasota and Manatee counties an immersive education in civil rights history.

The next performance of Impact Theatre is Tuesday at 7 p.m. at The Ora, Morganroth Event Center, at the Jewish Federation in Sarasota on 580 McIntosh Road.

Nine artists have filed claims against the city of Sarasota, alleging their rights were violated when officials removed pavement art in response to a state directive from the Florida Department of Transportation.

On "The Florida Roundup," we talked about a Flagler College film exploring the story of Francisco Menéndez. He was the leader of the first free Black settlement, Fort Mose.

This week on "The Florida Roundup," we spoke about the push to build new large-scale data centers for artificial intelligence and more.

On "Florida Matters Live & Local," we get a peek into how the museum is coming together from its program manager and curator. The museum is anticipated to open next year, but there isn't a set date yet.

Those four young Black men -- Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Ernest Thomas and Charles Greenlee, who was only 16 -- were wrongly prosecuted or killed for the alleged rape of a white woman in Lake County in 1949.

Will the state's English-only driver's tests make roads safer? We look into the rule change on "Florida Matters Live & Local."

Rev. Charles McKenzie, who performs for Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, tells "Florida Matters Live & Local" he became fascinated by King after watching Walter Cronkite's TV report of his shooting.

"Triumph: Tampa's Untold Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement," produced by Tampa PBS station WEDU, tells the story of the F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in in 1960.