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Lost, but not forgotten

The Gas Plant neighborhood had three cemeteries within its limits. For many years it has been rumored that an unknown number of bodies were left behind and built over. BY COREY GIVENS JR., Contributor ST. PETERSBURG - All across the country, lost graves sites are being discovered. A few months back, archaeologists in St. Petersburg […]

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NAACP candidate forum

The St. Petersburg Branch of the NAACP held a candidate forum last Saturday, Oct. 10. Candidates were L-R (top row) Caprice Edmond, Karl Nurse, Laura Hine, Maria L. Scruggs; bottom row candidates (L-R) Rene Flowers, Eliseo Santana and Trevor Mallory BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer PINELLAS COUNTY

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Clearing up the voting confusion

BY DEIRDRE O’LEARY, Staff Writer PINELLAS COUNTY - Why is voting so confusing? You used to go on Election Day to the polling place, wait in line, vote and go home. End of story. Now we are faced with an array of choices that presumably help us to vote by giving us more options and flexibility. […]

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WWE Fastlane: The last stop on the road to WrestleMania

WWE FASTLANE 2021 PPV will take place this Sunday, the 21st of March, at the ThunderDome hosted at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Elect Dan Helm for Supervisor of Elections

Dear Editor: It's time to vote - as if our lives depend on it - because they do! Our vote is our voice and one place to use it to speak up and demand voting changes by electing a new Pinellas Supervisor of Elections: Dan Helm. Check him out at VoteDanHelm.com. We can do something […]

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Candidate Michael Ingram

ST. PETERSBURG - At just over two decades old, Michael Ingram is younger than your typical political candidate. Yet, the St. Pete native sees this as a benefit in his bid to become the city's mayor. Young people are one of the most underrepresented groups in all of politics, he said, pointing out

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A Grave Situation: Part Two - African American News Today - EIN News

… angered others. Some in the African-American community – including leaders from the … and some members of the African-American community thought their prayers were … Gulfport existed, long before any African Americans lived in Florida. We examine …

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Roll to the Polls Hosts Successful Get Out the Vote Event in St Petersburg

City Councilmember Lisa Wheeler-Bowman taught her grandchildren, Mikiyah Stone, 9, and Mikah Stone, 10, the importance of voting at the Roll to the Polls event Saturday, Oct. 10. Deirdre O’Leary, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - Talk Black and the Tampa Bay Rays have partnered with the Dr. Carter

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WWE Tables, Ladders and Chairs: preview, where to watch TLC

WWE TLC is billed as the biggest show this festive season and final 2020 WWE pay-per-view event of the year.

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Celebrating the arts and culture of St. Pete’s Black community

Terri Lipsey Scott, executive director of the Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, Cranston Cumberbatch, actor, writer, filmmaker, producer and executive director of the Tampa Bay Actors Guild and Leigh Davis, arts and culture outreach manager for Creative Pinellas BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff

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Rebuilding our own ‘Black Wall Street’ in St. Petersburg

Left to right: Gathering for lunch after the kick-off meeting at the new 22 South on the ground floor of the Manhattan Casino: Nikki Gaskin-Capehart, City of St. Petersburg Urban Affairs Director; Nicola Johnson, Owner & Architect, Arconial Architecture; Angela Williams, Project

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St. Pete’s Black burial grounds erased from history

Left, Gwendolyn Reese, Dr. Julie Armstrong, Dr. Antoinette Jackson. BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - Across the nation and throughout Tampa Bay, African-American cemeteries have been lost to history, neglected, abandoned, even paved over and developed on. Even in St. Pete, where

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Ken Welch officially kicks off his mayoral campaign

“Progress is hope for families locked in generational poverty that today will be better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better than today,” Ken Welch, mayoral candidate. BY BRITTANYE BLAKE, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – Former Pinellas County Commissioner Ken Welch kicked off his mayoral

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Clearing up the voting confusion

BY DEIRDRE O’LEARY, Staff Writer PINELLAS COUNTY - Why is voting so confusing? You used to go on Election Day to the polling place, wait in line, vote and go home. End of story. Now we are faced with an array of choices that presumably help us to vote by giving us more options and flexibility. […]

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Runoff in April

Henry Leads Lewis In Chairman’s Primary Chairman Paula Lewis trailed Board Member Charles Henry in Tuesday’s three-man race to determine who will lead the school board here for the next…

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How long? How much more long? How long?

‘How long must we wait before a redevelopment plan for Tropicana Field is approved? Haven’t we waited long enough,’ asked community activist Gwendolyn Reese. BY GWENDOLYN REESE, Contributor The title I selected for this piece is borrowed from the song “How Long” by Sweet Honey in the Rock, an

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St. Pete NAACP panel gives top scores to JMA/Sugar Hill for Trop redevelopment

The St. Petersburg NAACP gave top ratings to JMA Ventures/Sugar Hill Partners for the redevelopment of Tropicana Field. ST. PETERSBURG – After a St. Petersburg NAACP-sponsored panel scored four groups vying for the Tropicana Field site redevelopment, one emerged as a top-rated choice: JMA

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A Grave Situation: Part Four - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

Part four of our series on neglected and forgotten cemeteries in Pinellas County looks at the Gas Plant district and the construction of present-day Tropicana Field.

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Candidate Darden Rice

ST. PETERSBURG - City councilmember Darden Rice has her sights set on being St. Pete's next mayor, and in a field of eight candidates, she calls herself the 'progressive voice' in the race. 'I'm running because I want an economy that works for us,' she said. 'And I want to fight to protect our

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Research project to recover, engage public on lost history of Black burial grounds in Tampa Bay

Members from the African American Burial Grounds & Remembering Project met to tour the parking lots of the Tropicana field – the Oakmont cemetery complex site. Photo courtesy of David Sheddon. ST. PETERSBURG — In Tampa Bay and across the nation, many African-American burial grounds and

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Roll to the Polls Hosts Successful Get Out the Vote Event in St Petersburg

City Councilmember Lisa Wheeler-Bowman taught her grandchildren, Mikiyah Stone, 9, and Mikah Stone, 10, the importance of voting at the Roll to the Polls event Saturday, Oct. 10. Deirdre O’Leary, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - Talk Black and the Tampa Bay Rays have partnered with the Dr. Carter

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Four years and counting on a gas station diet

Tangerine Plaza has set without a grocery store since Feb. 2017, creating a massive food dessert in Midtown. BY WENDY WESLEY, Contributor ST. PETERSBURG - This week marks four years that the Walmart at Tangerine Plaza closed its doors. At that time, the store has sat empty while elected leadership

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Yankees trade first baseman Mike Ford to Rays in rare deal between AL East rivals news -The Black Chronicle

Getty Images Thursday afternoon, the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays hooked up for only the fourth ever trade before the two AL East rivals. The Yankees sent

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Big changes are on the horizon news -The Black Chronicle

The final pay-per-view event of the WWE's Thunderdome era is upon us. The digital fan experience started inside the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, in August 2020, moved to Tropicana… The post Big changes are on the horizon appeared first on The Black Chronicle.

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I AM: The story of the Gas Plant Neighborhood

The area known as the Gas Plant neighborhood was the second African-American neighborhood formed in St. Petersburg between 1890-1900. By Gwendolyn Reese The area known as the Gas Plant neighborhood was the second African-American neighborhood formed in St. Petersburg between 1890-1900. Originally

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Candidate Marcile Power

ST. PETERSBURG - Marcile Power has been around politics from a very young age. As her father was a campaign manager, she worked on her first campaign when she was only five years old. Now the small business owner and mother or two want to be St. Pete's next mayor. An internationally published

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'He completed our family' - How a cardboard cutout kept Alex Cobb's promise to a fallen soldier's son news -The Black Chronicle

Major League Baseball's 2020 cutout craze was never intended to be anything more than a fad. Fun in the throes of a pandemic. Faces taped to ballpark seats so

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Headstone Unveiled for First 1919 Chicago Race Massacre Victim, Eugene Williams | Chicago Defender

A headstone was unveiled Saturday to honor and remember the 1919 Chicago race massacre victim Eugene Williams at the historic Lincoln Cemetery. The Eugene Williams Memorial Committee, David Browning, Tammy Gibson, Scott Priz, and Michael Torney raised money for a proper headstone for

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St. Pete activist Richie Floyd enters 2021 city council race

Activist Richie Floyd BY DEIRDRE O’LEARY, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - Activist Richie Floyd is the first candidate to declare a run for the soon to be open District 8 seat, currently occupied by term-limited Amy Foster. The district contains parts of Kenwood, Central Oak Park and Disston

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Julius Bradley: Montford Point Marine is finally honored

Julius Bradley's family was presented with his Congressional Gold Medal and certificates of recognition for his service to the country as a Montford Point Marine during War War II. He died in 1991. The Bradley family is seen here with 95-year-old Montford Point Marine George McIvory. RAVEN JOY

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