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Race
Black farmers, discrimination and the future
Howard Gunn, an African-American farmer, joins the Forum to discuss a host of issues around agri-business. African-American farmers represent only 1.24% of all farmers in the U.S. although Black people make up 12.4% of the...
On Earth Day, Floridians discuss the intersection of race and the environment at conference
Listen: This Earth Day, Floridians from across the state gathered in Tampa to discuss the impact of environmental threats like climate change on marginalized communities. The event was part of the 1st annual community conference...
Questions On Racism & Sexism. A Catastrophic Final Year.
Betsy Leondar Wright – Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem...
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.
The US clown show: citizenship, pardons, public health and conflicts
The global Red States offer citizenship based on blood while Blue States offer it based on land.
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.
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...
Author Sadie Dingfelder on her journey to discovering she is face blind and how to cope
Science writer Sadie Dingfelder always knew she was different but never understood how or why until one day she mistook a stranger for her husband in a grocery store. She had been teasing her husband...
Black women after the 2024 vote
Black voters are sorting out their political allies after all ethnicities left them standing virtually alone beside Vice-president Kamala Harris.
Help for the community gem, the Dr. Walter L Smith Library which suffered roof damage in hurricane Milton.
Black architecture, history and power
The historical importance of the builders is on topic as Jerel McCants, Tampa Bay-based architect, talks about his book “The Architecture of Segregation: the hierarchy of spaces and places”. Sunday Forum October 13, 2024 8am...
Defending the ‘Stop WOKE’ law in court could cost Florida taxpayers $750,000 in legal fees
The appeals court described Florida's Stop WOKE law as the “latest attempt to control speech by recharacterizing it as conduct.
