The City of St. Petersburg, like every other state municipality, must strictly enforce a public sleeping ban or face potential lawsuits from people, business owners and...
St. Petersburg’s landmark 2021 Structural Racism Study urged city officials to establish a chief equity officer position; Mayor Ken Welch announced that he created the role...
What the St. Petersburg Police Department did was to superimpose on natural geographic zones an artificial zone that rests on the Department’s judgment of Negroes as...
After spending several years unearthing graves and crimes at an infamous, state-operated “school for boys” in Florida’s panhandle, University of South Florida anthropologist Erin Kimmerle has...
That a 3-year-old must grow up without his father is only one of the many heartbreaks of the Tops supermarket massacre in Buffalo. But as shocking...
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, people from across the country gather in celebration and remembrance of the life of the Civil Rights icon who nonviolently...
St. Petersburg made history Thursday as Ken Welch officially became the first African American to lead the city in the 130 years since it elected its...
If the universe treated historians with the same wide-eyed respect and slobbery adulation as film stars, Raymond Arsenault would be the Brad Pitt or George Clooney...
Collaboration is key to Michèle Alexandre, the new dean of Stetson University’s College of Law. Alexandre, a civil rights scholar, administrator and trailblazer, was chosen to...
