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African American
Uhuru Solidarity leader runs for St. Pete Mayor
A leader in the Uhuru Solidarity Movement announced Wednesday morning that he is running for Mayor of St. Petersburg; Jesse Nevel is running for economic revitalization in the black community and under the slogan of...
Listen to some of WMNF’s Black History Month
WMNF is in the unique position of being able to drop some history into our airwaves. Thanks to our programmers, volunteers, and specifically Ira Hankin, our PSA & Promo Producer, we have some tasty sound...
Dr. King Day Local Activism on Sustainable Living
On Monday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day edition of the WMNF 88.5 FM Sustainable Living program we talked with a local community activist and political organizer, Kofi Hunt. Kofi’s presently working with “Fight For...
Historian Charles Dew recounts growing up in St.Pete during Segregation on Radioactivity Thursday
By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Thursday our guest was award-winning historian Charles Dew, a professor at Williams College who teaches American History focusing on the South, Slavery, and the Civil War. He spoke about his...
Pinellas has high drug possession arrest rate: report
Pinellas has a higher arrest rate for drug possession than just about any other county in Florida. A new report from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU puts Pinellas in the top five counties in...
Pinellas-Pasco Public Defender weighs in on death penalty
The death penalty in Florida is in limbo now that the state Supreme Court ruled Friday that a unanimous jury is required to in order to impose capital punishment. Now the state Legislature is expected to...
Manatee NAACP accuses Bradenton Police of racial disparities
The Manatee County NAACP is pointing out racial disparities in policing by the Bradenton Police; Rodney Jones, president of the Manatee branch of the NAACP, used a public records request to get documents showing that 21...
Pastors call for early voting site in black neighborhood; Pinellas says no
Pastors of predominantly black churches are asking for an early voting location in South St. Pete; but the supervisor of elections in Pinellas County is rejecting that request. In a press conference Friday morning at...
Have you been following the massive sinkhole – just 30 miles east of Tampa in New Wales? JACLYN LOPEZ, Florida Director, Staff Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity. Jacki thinks Florida may be beginning to wake...
On today’s program, Dave Zirin, the sports editor of The Nation and the host of the popular Edge of Sports podcast, was our guest for the first part of the program. He discussed San Francisco 49ers...
Tampa Police chief: body camera pilot worked
Tampa’s Police Chief told City Council Thursday that the number of bicycle stops and citations continue to decrease; Eric Ward also pointed to results of a USF pilot study showing that Tampa Police officers wearing a body...
In Tampa, Donald Trump says he should get minorities’ votes
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally Wednesday afternoon at the Florida State Fairgrounds near Tampa; before the rally about 18 immigrants’ rights supporters held a press conference criticizing Trump’s policies toward immigrants and refugees. During his...
