It wasn't an election. It was THE election. These blacks from Tampa filled in the bubble for a candidate they felt passionately about. ...more

November 5, 2008

Every year at meetings weary, experts ponder fame and theory, over many a quaint and curious request for honor on a stamp. ...more

October 26, 2008

After promising to help prosecute old murder cases from the civil rights era, the FBI has done little but let those cases get even colder. ...more

September 19, 2008

Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering JFK, has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy. ...more

August 8, 2008

BRADENTON — Civil rights leaders are pressuring the Bradenton Police Department to end the practice of stopping walkers at night in one part of the city for not using sidewalks and for walking on the wrong side of the road. ...more

May 25, 2008

Even with the voting and candidate boycott now over, the fight over Florida's Jan. 29 presidential primary is only intensifying. ...more

February 14, 2008

The modern civil rights movement can be traced to the early 1940s, when the flood of blacks entering the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor challenged the unacceptable social norms they found in the South. ...more

February 11, 2008

A former juvenile boot camp guard who was exonerated by a jury in the death of a teenager was offered a new position with the Bay County Sheriff's Office but turned it down, the sheriff said. ...more

February 4, 2008

Longtime Florida Panhandle lawman Guy Tunnell took fire from critics statewide in 2006 when he compared the Rev. Jesse Jackson to outlaw Jesse James and Barak Obama to terrorist Osama bin Laden. ...more

December 30, 2007

Civil rights leaders called Tuesday for a march on the Justice Department and an economic boycott next month because they think the federal government has been sluggish in dealing with hate crimes. ...more

October 24, 2007