Tag: Florida

  • Today, those records and others live on in the Slave Societies Digital Archive. This archive, which I launched in 2003, now holds approximately 600,000 images dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Since its creation, the archive has led to new insights into African populations in the Americas.

  • Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway. The New York Times 2016-10-23 Dan Barry Peter Henry, the son of Dora Johnson, looking over a wall near 27th Street and President Barack Obama Highway in Riviera Beach, Fla., that once separated black and white neighborhoods. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York…

  • With “A Seminole Legend,” Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences.

  • Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…

  • When people think of famous Latina women, Jennifer Lopez or Sofia Vergara come to mind. Not Zoe Saldana or Rosario Dawson…

  • Tío Tomás’s Cabin: Marco Rubio and White Cubanidad Latino Rebels 2016-01-14 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Last semester I had a young man turn in an assignment in which students were instructed to write to a current presidential candidate. This particular student had been outspoken and one of the more…

  • Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city The Washington Post 2015-12-19 Elahe Izadi, Reporter Workers install a new sign in Riviera Beach, Fla., on Thursday. (City of Riviera Beach) Old Dixie Highway is no more in Riviera Beach, Fla. Instead, motorists are driving on President Barack Obama Highway. Riviera Beach officials…

  • One Drop of Love at the Straz Center Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jaeb Theater 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602 Saturday, 2014-11-08, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story…

  • “People believe in race so strongly they’re faithful to it. Race is like a religion to us,” said Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, writer and performer of One Drop of Love, a one-woman multimedia show coming to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts Saturday night.

  • SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary The Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Florida 2014-10-13 Alec Newell The extended family of Zephaniah Kingsley, Anna Jai, and their descendants have been major players in shaping the history of Northeast Florida during three colonial periods, American territorial times, Florida statehood and on into the 20th century. Between Lake…