Otis Anthony has dedicated his life to improving conditions for the black community in Tampa. One of his many contributions is a collection of oral histories, articles and transcripts that he gathered in the 1970s and has since donated to the University of South Florida for preservation. The following are excerpts from an interview he did with G.V. Stewart, a black educator in Tampa before and after integration. ...more

February 7, 2009

People waving political signs outside Progress Village Park on Election Day said race fueled their fervor to support Barack Obama. But now, with the election frenzy behind them and the country's first black president poised to assume command in January, they want to focus on unity and change for people of all races. ...more

November 12, 2008

People waving political signs outside Progress Village Park on Election Day said race fueled their fervor to support Barack Obama. But now, with the election frenzy behind them and the country's first black president poised to assume command in January, they want to focus on unity and change for people of all races. ...more

November 7, 2008

A black professor at Columbia University tells Soledad O'Brien that he instructs his 11-year-old son to fear the police. ...more

July 20, 2008

The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88. ...more

May 22, 2008

Oliver Brown was angry. His daughter, Linda, had been denied admission to Sumner Elementary, an all-white school four blocks from his house in Topeka, Kan., because she was black. The board of education ordered her to Monroe Elementary, an all-black school two miles away. Worse still, she didn't get bused and had to walk. ...more

December 9, 2007