A brief history of Gasparilla, and the legend of Jose Gaspar
This month hundreds of thousands of people are expected to return to Tampa for the yearly Gasparilla Pirate Festival, taking ...
Slavery, tax evasion, resistance: The story of 11 Africans in South America's gold mines in the 1500s
The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of ...
In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change
Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank walks past chickees, stilt homes, used for community activities, on the Miccosukee ...
Opinion
Opinion: Enough with the land acknowledgments: Remembering that Native Americans were here long before others is not enough.
If you work at a university, large corporation or left-leaning nonprofit or have attended certain performances, you have probably heard a land acknowledgment, a ritual that asks you to remember that ...
Critics ‘appalled’ as Related offers to give away prehistoric relics found in Brickell
The Related Group has offered to donate hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts and other relics unearthed at the site of ...
Seminole County teacher spends 25 years pushing to make Florida scrub-jay a state symbol
A bill to make the flamingo the Florida state bird and scrub-jay the state songbird could finally make that happen.
SWFLA To Do List: ‘Birding with Biologists,’ White Pelican Celebration, more
Jan. 10. Enjoy this fun and informative class designed to help you identify birds around you. Oriented toward the ...
From the Archives: A brief history of Fort Myers
This week we take a look at Lee County’s seat of power, Fort Myers, which takes its name from a former fort built during the Seminole Wars.