Present Pasts Journal

08/10/2021

Sunday, Oct. 17: Join us for an exciting talk by Dr. Erin Kimmerle, Director of the Florida Institute of Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science. at USF.

28/09/2021

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

23/09/2021

Local investigators bring passion and commitment to the job, so they can give families closure.

15/09/2021

Tune into Florida Matters NOW:
We look at the ongoing work of unearthing long-forgotten African American cemeteries in the Tampa Bay area.

Five University of South Florida professors launched the Black Cemetery Network last June. Its purpose is to document and highlight the stories of the nation's unearthed cemeteries and the people buried in them.

Host Bradley George talks with Antoinette Jackson, one of the founders of the Network and Walter Jennings, a Tampa-based poet who is also part of the project.

03/09/2021

University of South Florida

18/08/2021

SUNDAY: AUG. 22: Learn the history of Seminole Alligator Wrestling! Note, as a Covid precaution, event will take place outdoors.

18/08/2021

After years of research with refugee and immigrant communities, USF anthropologists are now pivoting their efforts to ensure that Tampa’s hard-to-reach populations have access to free COVID-19 vaccinations.

17/08/2021

16/06/2021

Can a cemetery with nearly 800 burials be made to disappear from recorded history, only to be rediscovered nearly 100 years later? Sadly, it can, and this is what happened with Zion Cemetery, the first African American cemetery in Tampa. The cemetery … Continue Reading

29/05/2021

Left, Gwendolyn Reese, Dr. Julie Armstrong, Dr. Antoinette Jackson. BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Across the nation and throughout Tampa Bay, African-American cemeteries have been lost to history, neglected, abandoned, even paved over and developed on. Even in St. Pete, where Tro...

05/04/2021

Race, Gender, Indigeneity, and the Meaning of Narrative and Excavated Pasts.
Dr. Maria Franklin, Dr. Kendra Field, Dr. Nedra Lee, Thursday, April 8, 2021, 7:00–8:30 p.m. CST via zoom https://www.mtsu.edu/history/strickland-scholar.php