Team Solid Waste is prepping our #MLKDay float for tomorrow! 🥳 We hope to see everyone out along the parade route. The fun starts at 12pm near Cuscaden Park: https://t.co/gFH02MAr0b
Today we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this Jan. 16, 1968 file photo, King, accompanied by Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discuss a planned march on Washington, during a news conference in Atlanta.
📸 AP Photo/Charles Kelly
A new bookstore in Florida is attracting attention for highlighting Black history and culture in a state that has limited or banned some books in schools over racial content.
Black English Bookstore located in the historic Tampa Heights neighborhood of Tampa, Florida
receives national news coverage
#FreeToRead
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The one year anniversary of Madame Fortune Dessert + HiFi Parlour is this week!
🧡🧡 Get tickets here:
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@dirkisbeast@CityofTampa Thousands of people in the United States celebrate Kwanzaa including here in Tampa. It is celebrated by millions worldwide. Thank you City of Tampa for your thought and effort. ❤️🖤💚
Happy Kwanzaa to all who participate in this joyous celebration of unity, culture, and community. Today, we reflect on the importance of the Seven Principles - may every candle remind us of the significance of each!🕯️
SEE THE SOULWALK: This 40-foot piece honors Harriet Tubman, an iconic American abolitionist and social activist, who is most known for her role as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad. You can spot this mural and more along the Soulwalk: https://t.co/wE0gFj0lST
Happy Holidays 🎄 from Activist, Author and our fearless Historian; @JeanG647 ❣️
(📸: @floridaaquarium "Snow Days", 2021; Thank you to CEO Roger Germann and team, our Friends of Madame Taylor)
Even though the end of Fortune Street in Downtown Tampa is no longer open to traffic (it is part of the Marion Transit Center bus way), @GoHART still acknowledges its location on their maps.
#shebridgedthegap
On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified, abolishing chattel slavery in the United States. May this day be a reminder that the work to build a more perfect union continues.
And Benjamin and Fortune Taylor were no longer the property of another human being. Today in Downtown Tampa we have Fortune Street and the Fortune Taylor Bridge. #shebridgedthegap
#OTD 158 years ago, chattel slavery was abolished in our nation. While we have made great progress, we must continue to fight for freedom and justice for ALL Americans.