Manuel Roig-Franzia is a Washington Post staff writer and the newspaper’s former Miami bureau chief. On the causeway that stretches from downtown Miami to the beach, there’s a little sign that diverts ...

The 1920 Ocoee Massacre, also known as the deadliest election day in United States history. The under-told story about when an African-American community was attacked for using their right to vote in ...

Florida Time is partial to colorful historical characters. Such as the Binder Boys. Here’s more from our column in April 2019, as well as a 1986 essay in the Florida Historical Quarterly by Paul ...

Mose Norman, a Black registered voter, was ready to cast his ballot for presidential candidate Warren G. Harding. But when he arrived at his polling place on Election Day, Nov. 2, 1920, in the orange ...

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a state budget bill that includes a scholarship program for descendants of the victims of one of Florida’s bloodiest incidents of racial violence. The ...

In the midst of a historic midterm election, Central Floridians left voting stickers on the grave of Julius “July” Perry, an African American man who was shot and lynched by a white mob in Orlando ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Daniel Okrent BUBBLE IN THE SUN The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought On the Great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Florida Senator Randolph Bracy and his wife, Kietta Mayweather Bracy are producing a film on the 1920 Ocoee Massacre. The ...