Black History

Juneteenth celebration in Fort Myers, honors a historic-based event.

Equal Ground is a Black-led community organization that monitors the Florida legislature and advocates for the Black community.

The power of music has the ability to bring us joy, comfort and motivation.Gospel music in particular, has long been that medium that connects followers to the message of hope and faith.The black church has a rhythm. From the preaching to the teaching, to the ministries to the choir it has a rhythm in it. There’s a soul to it. It really is the soul of the church which is still the soul of the black community. It has always been centered around preaching and music.

In a stunning turn of events, strict policy changes that would have banned a classroom banner with a "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE" message failed to pass by the school board.

Lee County Black History Society and Edison and Ford Winter Estates is offering free daytime admission during the month of January to either museum with membership to one of the organizations.The reciprocal agreement is for daytime admission at Edison and Ford Winter Estates for members of the Lee County Black History Society.

"I never intended to write about race, but the land of my birth could not have been born, nurtured, or thrived without race." This concludes the compositions for WGCU of Martha Bireda's "Reflections of a Colored Girl."

In her life, Martha Bireda has been a a colored, a negro, a Black, an African American, and a person of color. Today, Bireda is claiming the description as a person of the global majority.

In this installment of "Reflections of a Colored Girl," Bireda explored how education has been used for and against African American students. And how it lead to her career as an educational consultant.

In 1988, the Reverand Jesse Jackson began a movement to change the designation of “Black” to “African American” to symbolize the Black American’s historical connection to the continent. The designation and use of “African American” was the first-time blacks in the United States had been acknowledged as Americans.But what does it mean to be American?

Following the Detroit Riots in the late 1960s, an outraged college student revisits the essay she wrote in high school.