Present Pasts Journal

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.

When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead? Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

They refuse to let cases go cold Local investigators bring passion and commitment to the job, so they can give families closure.

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.

USF ANTHROPOLOGISTS FACILITATE COVID-19 VACCINATIONS FOR TAMPA’S REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS University of South Florida

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

USF anthropologists facilitate COVID-19 vaccinations for Tampa’s refugee and immigrant populations 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.

University Area Redevelopment Project

The Lost African American Cemeteries of Tampa Bay & What’s Being Done to Remember Them 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

St. Pete’s Black burial grounds erased from history 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...

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