Black History

The century-old building served as a boarding house during the segregation era. Famous visitors included Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and James Brown.

The Buffalo Soldiers, the first all-Black regular U.S. Army regiments established by Congress in 1866, camped out in Tampa prior to their deployment to Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

State and local police have been collecting information about people they suspect of being in the country without legal documentation – and filing it in a database.

The Clearwater City Council voted June 18 to hand over a downtown block to the Church of Scientology. Grassroots group Save the Garden is racing to collect 7,000 signatures in time to undo that decision.

“At a time when opportunities were not always equal and barriers still existed, these men answered the call to serve," St. Petersburg Fire Rescue Chief Keith Watts said.

On “The Florida Roundup,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson discussed his book "Freedom Won, Freedom Lost" and the ongoing struggle for civil rights in America.

This week on "The Florida Roundup," we dive into some notable moments in Florida's Black history on Juneteenth.

On "Florida Matters Live & Local," Tampa Bay History Center curator Fred Hearns talked about Juneteenth and the importance of this historical event to the state of Florida.

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.