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TAMPA — Central Avenue was once the hippest place in Tampa. It’s where Ray Charles made his first recording and where Hank Ballard discovered “The Twist,” the dance that inspired his song popularized by Chubby Checker. Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald also regularly performed there. But nothing remains of Central Avenue today. “So much of the hardscape of the African American community has ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — In 1900, the Tampa City Council agreed to stake off Woodlawn...

Family hosts funeral 100 years after Black cemetery erased

TAMPA — Anna Rebecca Wyche was a freed enslaved woman, mother, cook and businesswoman.

Richard Doby is the name behind Tampa's forgotten Black town of Dobyville, where the neighborhood is working on adding it to the Historic District registry.