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Tampa’s newest Black history exhibit dives into city’s long history

 Listen: After an eight-week renovation, the Tampa Bay History Center opened a new permanent Black history exhibit. The exhibit is titled “Travails and Triumphs” and features stories from Africans who traveled to Florida in the...

Justice and Equity

A wide-ranging discussion about economic justice, the inequality resulting from the closing and repurposing of Just Elementary School serving predominantly Black communities. Neo-colonialism and the Black petis bourgeois who imitate white racist policies to the...
Life Malcolm with Walter Smith II

Destructive Colonial Capitalism

Life Malcolm visits the forum for a wide-ranging discussion around local, national and international politics and policies. Callers joined in to discuss a historical landmark, Jackson House, in Tampa and the struggle to restore it...
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Episode 13, 05.16.2023, Entrepreneurship -Interview with Arbra Tawwab A Black Business Owners of Wellness Retreat/ ABNB in Lutz, Florida

Episode 13, 05.16.2023, Entrepreneurship -Interview with Arbra Tawwab A Black Business Owners of Wellness Retreat/ ABNB in Lutz, Florida.
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Episode 12, 05.09.2023-Interview with Dr. Carolyn Collins as the Chair of the Jackson House Foundation to Replicate/Preserve the Historical Jackson Rooming House Building At Its Original Site.

Episode 12, 05.09.2023-Interview with Dr. Carolyn Collins as the Chair of the Jackson House Foundation to Replicate/Preserve the Historical Jackson Rooming House Building at Its Original Site.
Fentrice Driskell

Florida Senate passes a bill to fund historic African-American cemeteries

The Florida Senate passed a bill that funds efforts to protect cemeteries, sparked by a history of neglect of African-American cemeteries.
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Episode 11, 05/01/2023-Entrepreneurship Series: Merric Jackson, a young entrepreneur as a Chef and Real Estate Broker

Becoming a young entrepreneur could offer a higher quality of life as a business owner; you learn to problem solve and grow your business in multifaceted industries.  
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Episode 3, What is Arutisuse? Arutisuse is a new Black Americans’ holiday dating back to the 70s. How Foster care agency continues to exist in a critical state for thousands of Florida children.

3. Episode 3, 12/11/2022, What is Arutisuse? Arutisuse is a new Black Americans holiday dating back to the 70s. How Foster care agency continues to exist in a critical state for thousands of Florida children. ...

Overthrowing The Colonized Mind

Patrick Loch Otieno (P.L.O.) Lumumba, a Pan-African attorney and Director of The Kenya School of Law outlined issues of colonization and the continued effects today. Further discussion on ‘colonization’ issues in the U.S. especially regarding...

Free Speech Where Freedom Comes To Die

Free Speech is under threat in the U.S. and especially Florida where fascist rulers manufacture punitive law. A Free Speech event is on April 29, 2023 at Tampa Prep School on Cass street in Tampa,...

Bill to protect neglected African-American cemeteries in Florida moves forward in the House

A subcommittee in the Florida House advanced a bill that funds efforts to protect historic African-American cemeteries.
Kirk Bogan with St. Luke AME Church and Jerry Nealy with St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church at the C. Blythe Andrews Library in East Tampa

Souls to the Polls gets out the early vote

In the weekend leading up to Tampa’s municipal election, the NAACP and members of historically African American churches gathered for Souls to the Polls at an early voting site to educate and encourage residents to...

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