Exhibition game in March to raise money for foundations, charities ( Read more... )

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The first ever excavation of a black Seminole town is under way in Central Florida and may unearth how the runaway slaves actually lived within the embattled Seminole Indian nation, says a University of Florida researcher ( Read more... )

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (NNPA)-Surrounded by ancient live oaks and stately palms, Kingsley Plantation overlooks the Fort George River on Fort George Island in the Timucuan Preserve just outside Jacksonville. The rich and diverse history of the Plantation includes the story of wealthy English planter Zephaniah Kingsley and his wife Anna Madgigine Jai, ( Read more... )

MIMS, Fla. - New information points to four Ku Klux Klan members as almost certainly responsible for the unsolved murders of two civil rights activists who died when their home exploded in 1951, Florida officials say ( Read more... )

1639 The Virginia House of Burgesses passed the first legislation to exclude blacks from the militia ( Read more... )

Established in 1738 by Colonial Spanish Florida's Governor Manuel Montiano, Fort Mose gave sanctuary to Africans challenging enslavement in the English Colony of Carolina. Approximately 100 Africans lived at Fort Mose, forming more than 20 households. Together they created a frontier community which drew on a range of African backgrounds blended ( Read more... )

On this date from 1845 we recall the Branding of a Slave Stealer. Massachusetts’s sea captain Jonathan Walker who was born in 1790 was apprehended off the coast of Florida. ( Read more... )

RIP, Shirley Chisholm.


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Chisholm '72

Can't wait to see this documentary:

CHISHOLM ’72 - Unbought & Unbossed is the first historical documentary on Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972. Following Chisholm from the announcement of her candidacy in January to the Democratic National ( Read more... )

While most of us are familiar with James Weldon Johnson (hopefully) for penning the lyrics to The Negro National Anthem (his brother J. Rosamund composed it), or for his masterpiece (in my eyes if no one else's shoot!) The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man, he contributed so much more than that. He founded the first high school for Black students ( Read more... )