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  1. NAACP to Tampa: For Juneteenth, find Robert Meacham, a slave who became senator
    Yesterday• History
    This portrait of Robert Meacham was taken around 1870. Meacham was an enslaved man who was later elected Florida senator.
  2. Newman Cigar Company wants to bring Cuban tobacco back to Ybor City
    Jun. 7• Tampa
    Eric Newman, president of J.C. Newman Cigar Company, with a bail of Cuban tobacco that was purchased before the embargo.
  3. Tampa archaeologists to search for Tulsa race massacre mass grave
    Jun. 3• History
    Cardno Archaeologist KC Allen uses a trowel as she explores a grave shaft at Zion Cemetery in Tampa in June 2020.
  5. Black communities around Tampa Bay were erased. Should cities pay to save the history?
    May 28• History
    Tampa's Black neighborhood known as the Scrub as it looked in the 1930s. The downtown neighborhood was later razed.
  6. The history of W.K. Kellogg in Dunedin and his ‘mansion’
    May 26• History
    The home at 129 Buena Vista Drive S in Dunedin seen during the years W.K. Kellogg owned it.
  7. In the 1970s, did siblings find a mass grave linked to an erased Tampa cemetery?
    May 26• History
    This retention pond, next to the the Italian Club cemetery at 2520 E 24th Ave, in Tampa, is where a mass grave was allegedly witnessed in the 1970s when the city was digging there.
  8. June brings a rainbow of Pride month activities around Tampa Bay
    May 25• Things To Do
    Rainbow flags flying in front of local businesses or in shop windows, as well as art installations and other decorations during 2018's St. Pete Pride celebration.
  9. Ownership of two West Tampa cigar factories is in dispute
    May 24• History
    The Y. Pendas y Alvarez Cigar Factory at 2301 North Albany Ave. in Tampa. [Times (2019)]
  10. The 1973 murder of Jonathan Kushner shook Tampa. His brother made a podcast about it.
    May 24• History
    "Alligator Candy" is a new podcast hosted by David Kushner. It explores the murder of his brother in Tampa in 1973.
  11. Owner of Mykonos restaurant, ‘unofficial mayor’ of Tarpon Springs, dies at 80
    May 24• Life & Culture
    Andreas Salivaras “truly felt honored when someone would walk into his restaurant and spent money there,” said daughter Sofia Zaronias. “Whether it was a cup of coffee or a five-course meal, every single customer was such a blessing and honor.”
  12. Pinellas honors historic Black community of Dansville and its founder
    May 23• Pinellas
    David Baldwin, left, grandson of Dansville founder Dan Henry, reveals the historical marker honoring the Black community of Dansville alongside Pinellas County Commissioner Charlie Justice, right, during Saturday's dedication ceremony at the corner of Wilcox Road and Pine Street.
  13. Effort to save Dunedin’s Kellogg mansion shifts to guest house
    May 21• History
    The exterior of the Kellogg Mansion at 129 Bay Vista Dr. in Dunedin.
  14. Proposed memorial for Tampa’s erased Zion Cemetery has an $8 million price tag
    May 21• History
    A conceptual design of what the Zion Cemetery memorial park could look like.
  15. Is the old St. Pete Melting Pot haunted? Ghost hunters went inside.
    May 21• History
    The former Melting Pot location in St. Petersburg. Mad Beach Brewing owner Matthew Powers recently purchased the property and plans to renovate the building. Urban legends abound that the place is haunted.
  16. A timeline detailing the creation and disappearance of Tampa’s College Hill Cemetery
    May 19• History
    A plat from 1887 of a Cuban burial section located on land that today is used as a parking lot by the Italian Club Cemetery
  17. 1,200 graves are missing in Tampa. How did they disappear?
    May 19• History
    Robert Irvin and Yvette Lewis with the the Hillsborough County NAACP, walk across a grassy field believed to once hold burial sections for Cubans and Blacks. Lewis would like the Italian Club, who owns the cemetery, to pay for ground penetrating radar, at the Italian Club Cemetery located in College Hill in Tampa.
  18. Actor Charles Grodin dies at 86
    May 18• Movies
    Actor Charles Grodin, shown here in 1994. died Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Conn., from bone marrow cancer. He was 86.
  19. Firefighters first became paramedics in cities like Tampa. Holly Boggs remembers.
    May 16• Community News
    Holly Boggs (left) worked as a paramedic (and firefighter) for Hillsborough County Fire Rescue. She was one of the first firefighters to be state-certified as a paramedic.
  20. Tampa saved a century-old Black cemetery after its owner died
    May 13• History
    A pedestrian is seen at Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa. The cemetery opened in 1919 and was recently cleaned up by the City of Tampa after the former owner had died and left the grounds in disrepair.
  21. A movie based on Gibsonton’s carnie history will be shot locally
    May 11• Movies
    The movie poster for "The Beast Comes at Midnight," which is tentatively scheduled to begin filming throughout the Tampa area in July.
  22. Florida bill to help protect Black cemeteries heads to DeSantis
    May 4• History
    Cardno Archaeologist KC Allen uses a trowel as she explores a grave shaft at Zion Cemetery in Tampa.
  23. Dunedin’s century-old Kellogg mansion on path to demolition
    May 4• History
    A view from inside Dunedin's "Kellogg Mansion," which was built in the 1920s and was once home to cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg.
  24. Tampa’s 73-year-old Mother’s Day statue needs a home
    May 3• History
    The “Honor to Mothers of the World,” a statue that more recently stood outside the German Club building, is seen at a storage facility in Tampa.
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