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Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past — with his metal detector. The 64-year-old history teacher is devoted to finding remnants of the Seminole Wars, and has also found kindred spirits along the way.
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Emmanuel George is an archivist and community historian who created the Black Broward Instagram page to share pieces of Broward’s Black history. It’s a peek into all the different kinds of work he’s doing to highlight Broward’s Black history.
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Under the new law, middle and high school students must learn about 9/11 for at least 45 minutes in their social studies class.
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The Florida Keys celebrated its bicentennial Monday along the Gulf of Mexico with a Key lime pie more than 13 feet in diameter — which organizers intend to certify as a world record.
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Jason Katz from Islandia Journal, a quarterly "neo-tropical periodical," joins WLRN Sundial to talk about some of South Florida’s haunted places and people.
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For nearly 160 years, Black Floridians have been marking May 20th as Emancipation Day — the day when a Union general officially declared the Florida's enslaved people were free. Communities across the state are hosting events to celebrate the day.
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Miami Beach is known for its colorful Art Deco buildings. But more and more, only real estate developers are willing to spend the money it takes to preserve them — if they can build a tall, high-end residential tower on the property. This strategy saves at least part of the old buildings but changes the skyline forever. Preservationists fear this will destroy what makes Miami Beach special. WLRN's Verónica Zaragovia reports on the simmering tensions over historic preservation in an evolving city — throughout the last century and today.
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Developers are willing to pay for pricey Art Deco building repairs — if they can build a lucrative condo tower nearby. Preservationists fear this will destroy what makes Miami Beach special.
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The documentary, Crossing Overtown, explores the community's history as foundational not just to the city of Miami but also to the Civil Rights Movement.
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The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and war-torn Syria on Monday has killed more than 20,000 people. Here are some of the world's deadliest earthquakes in the past quarter-century.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released a major report that details how stolen guns and emerging technology like "ghost guns" play a factor in gun violence in the U.S.
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February is Black History Month, and WUSF is featuring the voices of educators, historians and people in the Greater Tampa Bay region who have been moved by learning a piece of Black history.