Members of the Marshall High School Class of '70 will have a free garage sale at Marie B. Ellis Park ffrom 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 16. ...more

May 5, 2009

The following is a timeline of the admission of black students to the University of Florida: ...more

September 18, 2008

If Kwame Kilpatrick were white, don't you think he'd have been thrown out of office a long time ago? Heck, he'd be out of jail by now and shopping his memoirs. ...more

September 13, 2008

There are eight elements to a good neighborhood, said Debbie Love. Washington Heights used to have them all, but they've disappeared as this community has disintegrated over the years. ...more

July 21, 2008

Althea Mills of Winter Haven, whose 1963 federal lawsuit spurred the desegregation of Polk County schools, died Friday. She was 84. ...more

June 12, 2008

The woman whose 1963 federal lawsuit spurred the desegregation of Polk County schools has died. Althea Mills of Winter Haven died Friday. She was 84. ...more

June 11, 2008

A Bumpy Road Ahead Regarding "Historic Race Begins" (front page, June 4): I'm not sure what all the cheering is about. Barack Obama, whom I support, has the Democratic nomination. He looks like a solid candidate - bright, articulate and with a strong sense of right and wrong. And he's running against a doddering old warmonger who is in bed with every elite lobbyist in Washington, and who seems to barely know where he is. ...more

June 5, 2008

It's an uplifting theme that has become a Hollywood staple: a no-nonsense, intense coach or teacher arrives at an inner-city school and transforms a group of cynical, streetwise kids into a winning team and model citizens. ...more

January 24, 2008

A year after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, enforcing desegregation and making it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion or national origin. ...more

January 19, 2008

The other day the Pinellas County School Board agreed to a student assignment plan that will steer students to schools closer to home beginning with the 2008-09 school year. As a result, the county joins hundreds of other school districts that have been freed from desegregation court orders, most of which seemed to emphasize the co-mingling of black and white students more than the quality of the education they were receiving. ...more

December 26, 2007