Posts in category Black History

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON – Relatives of Jesse Owens and America’s 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to …

MOHAMED HAMALUDIN The case for reparations by the United States for centuries of slavery and its after- math has been around for more than a …

By KIMBERLY GRANT Special to South Florida Times It’s finally here; the release of the highly anticipated Birth of a Nation. It’s a film that …

Associated Press ATLANTA – Grammy-winning singer John Legend will play an iconic runaway slave-turned abolitionist on WGN America’s drama series Underground. Sony Pictures Television and …

Staff Report DETROIT – The former Detroit home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks is set to be torn down and refashioned for a new …

By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN Special to South Florida Times MIAMI – Nearly a century of a black life well lived went on display Sunday night when …

Staff Report Miami, Fla. – In honor of the 101st anniversary of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), an …

AUGUST 18, 1963: James Meredith becomes the first Arrican American to graduate from the University of Mississippi. AUGUST 19, 1989: Bishop Desmond Tutu defies apartheid …

By Calibe Thompson Between the time of the Africans’ unwilling exodus to Jamaica and the island’s Independence from Britain in 1962, perhaps the most consequential …

In a 2002 PBS documentary by then Broward-based father and son production team, John and Jack Hamrick, the duo explored the story of the Florida …