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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently acquired documents from T.T. Wentworth Jr.'s personal files that revealed he was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Escambia County in 1920s may also unearth previously unknown episodes of the ...

Former Florida Senator Randolph Bracy and his wife, Kietta Mayweather Bracy are producing a film on the 1920 Ocoee Massacre. The 1920 Ocoee Massacre, also known as the deadliest election day in United ...