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On a cold day a hundred years ago in upstate New York, a group of progressive men and women from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds formed an organization to combat national ills such as lynching, Jim Crow laws and voter disenfranchisement. Unbeknownst to them, they also paved the way for people such as President Barack Obama and NFL coaches Mike Tomlin and Tony Dungy. ...more
February 13, 2009
Community organizing is much on America's mind these days. One major party candidate for president cites the experience as a proper springboard to the White House. The other side suggests the nation would be better served by the elevation of candidates who have dealt in "actual responsibility." ...more
September 10, 2008
Whether he was drinking beer with revolutionary Che Guevara, fighting racism in St. Augustine or teaching students about international affairs at the University of South Florida, Charles Arnade lived life with passion. ...more
September 9, 2008
Robert Knowles built his house off what is now Bell Shoals Road in 1915 using a vernacular style popular in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, his wife, Marjorie, was from. ...more
July 9, 2008
A play now running at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center promises to tickle both the brain and funny bone. ...more
September 22, 2007
A 24-year-old woman charged with making a bomb threat Thursday on a plane from Greensboro, N.C., had been released from a North Carolina mental hospital despite her mother's objections, the woman's father said. ...more
September 15, 2007
CLEARWATER - Sarah Ford, 24, charged with making a bomb threat on a plane from Greensboro, N.C., to St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, was released from the facility despite her mother's objections, the woman's father said. ...more
September 14, 2007
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