Posts in category Black History

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 …

In their Black Doll-White Doll experiment in the 1940s, Dr. Kenneth Clark and his wife Mamie Clark filmed young black children selecting white dolls instead …

South Florida has benefitted from several African-American leaders that were progressive visionaries who took bold actions to make this area a better place to live …

If Miamians knew what they had in Felecia Hatcher, people would form a line blocks long to attend any of her well-thought out, informative and …

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 …