The Classic Creations barber shop sits empty, surrounded by drunks and shuttered storefronts just two blocks from the manicured lawns of Grosse Pointe Park. The contrast isn't lost on LaVar Anthony, a young barber who speaks in riddles of race, class and politics. ...more

September 28, 2008

Attitudes Must Change After watching the CNN series, "Black in America," I would like to say that with the time allotted and the vastness of the black experience in America, a very good job was done. We must start somewhere and rather than degrade the first step, we must help prepare the second step. ...more

September 10, 2008

Alan Levine of Palm Harbor says Republicans lose power when they start acting live liberals. ...more

June 21, 2008

Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at higher rates than their black and white classmates, according to a new federal survey that shows a continuation of a disturbing trend. ...more

June 5, 2008

After being rejected by the Florida Department of Transportation, state Rep. Michael Scionti and the West Tampa Chamber of Commerce are campaigning to bring historical markers to Interstate 275 exits at Howard and Armenia avenues. ...more

May 7, 2008

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is killing any dreams Sen. Barack Obama may have had to be elected this nation's first African-American president. ...more

May 4, 2008

grandparents, mother, myself, five siblings, aunt, uncle and two cousins from Michigan, along with the Kinderman family (four people). The big draw in Hernando was basically two things: the great weather; and it was cheap to live here, for a fairly nice, quaint region. ...more

February 22, 2008

Can a Super Bowl commercial be too clever? "Yes, if it misses the goal of establishing a brand name and doesn't help the bottom line," says Stephen Blessing, a University of Tampa psychology professor who has done research that tests people's memory of Super Bowl ads. ...more

February 3, 2008

Bob Devin Jones' portrayal of Harry T. Moore, civil-rights activist, executive director of the NAACP of Florida and generally considered America's first civil-rights martyr, attracted more than 40 local residents Jan. 13 to the Brandon Regional Library. ...more

January 30, 2008

Anyone who showed up at Mount Zion AME Church on Monday expecting a staid ceremony honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. either left early or left singing. ...more

January 22, 2008