Posts in category Black History

Florida Memorial University, South Florida’s only HBCU, is hosting a conference designed to champion Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Created by Marquise McGriff, a 20-year …

Each February, many Americans pause to pay homage to African-Americans who have made a significant contribution to society. The reflections are important and, whether Stacy …

Supporting acting awards went to Idris Elba and Alicia Vikander at the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black repeated …

FORT LAUDERDALE – Dr. Robert B. Hayling, a dentist and influential civil rights activist in Florida during the 1960s, has died. He was 86. Hayling …

Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates has boosted the popularity of discovering family roots with his PBS show, Finding Your Roots. What’s fascinating is the same …

SEDALIA, N.C. (AP) – The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum is opening an exhibit about its namesake’s role in the fight for voting rights that gives …

By ANGELIA DAVIS GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -Theron Burton’s parents, Arie and Oscar, often told him that he could be anything he wanted to be. Stay …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Birmingham Civil Rights Institute officials are planning a ceremony to honor an attorney and civil rights leader for his work in human …

By MAXINE J. TULLOCH Special to South Florida Times This year marks the eighth anniversary of June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month, when the United States pays …

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM/ESTEBAN PARCHUC WEST PALM BEACH — Eager student engineers have a chance to get hands-on, minds-on …