The African American story is an integral part of the fabric from which local and national history is quilted, as renowned local historian Gwendolyn Reese eloquently...
St. Petersburg City Council recently heard a presentation detailing the city’s history of structural racism, and subsequently approved recommendations on how to identify and address the...
In a couple of weeks, former residents of St. Petersburg’s Laurel Park and Gas Plant communities will gather to reminisce about their lives in the now...
New plans are afoot for the sprawling Tropicana Field site, where Black families once lived and from which they were displaced. Little has gone smoothly for...
Part three of a three-part series As the type of person who thrives on the energy of face-to-face interactions, Gwendolyn Reese has never been a big...
Part two of a three-part series Gwendolyn Reese had been intellectually prepared to deal with racism. As a child, she’d had brief encounters with it when...
Part one of a three-part series It’s been more than 65 years and Gwendolyn Reese still remembers the first time she experienced the sting of racial...
