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African American
Black women suffrage, march mobilization
Voting was a right limited to men or property owners before the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1920. States’ rights was invoked as a way of preserving white supremacy in...
Listen: Before there was Tropicana Field and its surrounding acres of asphalt, there was the Gas Plant Neighborhood in St. Petersburg. Now, there’s a new documentary shining a light on the primarily Black neighborhood destroyed...
Tampa honors civil rights advocates on the 65th anniversary of a historic downtown sit-in
Listen: Sixty-five years ago, a group of high school students staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Tampa. On Thursday, local leaders honored the civil rights activists on the anniversary of...
Awards presented to educators, activists and officials
Local community activists are recognized with World Builder Awards. Lyfe Malcolm (Bronze Titan), Sean Kinane (WMNF News and Public Affairs Director), activist Connie Burton, Jarvis EL-Amin (Community Herald), and Tampa Councilman Luis Viera. Not pictured...
Tampa celebrates Black love and Blerds
Frank Crum from the city of Tampa makes his annual pilgrimage to The Forum to talk Black Love movie series and the rise of the Black Nerd.
Tampa benefit concert calls for end to qualified immunity on anniversary of teen’s death
Listen: A non-profit is hosting a concert to call for justice. It’s to commemorate the 11th anniversary of Andrew Joseph III, a teen killed after his family says he was negligently left alone by police. ...
Gwen Henderson and host Walter L. Smith II, Florida A&M University Alumni, at WMNF
MLK final year and reinauguration day
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr spent the last year of his life under scrutiny and attack by the FBI under it's notoriously racist director J. Edgar Hoover.
Community demand, participation and need
Tampa Riverwalk, Unions, the politics of state and Federal funding.
Resistance time for revolutionaries
Fredrick Allen Hampton was a powerful 21-year-old Black Panther Party (BPP) activist and self-described revolutionary socialist. He was the prominent leader and chairman of the Chicago, Illinois, chapter of the Black Panther Party. Their “Power...
Walter Smith II recall the nine years as host of the Sunday Forum on WMNF Community Radio
Uhuru stand firm on free speech before sentencing
Russia seeks out any group or party critical of the West, the United States in particular and the Democrats specifically. African Initiative has become the most recent propaganda tool on the continent with similar campaigns...
