Browsing: Westside Gazette

They own and operated the first Black taxi service and were members of Mount Hermon AME Church

There was no road to the new segregated beach; Black citizens had to board a boat and shuttle from the mainland across the Intracoastal Waterway to the isolated and undeveloped barrier island south of the Port Everglades inlet which is now called the Von D. Mizell and Eula Johnson State Park.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (Sept. 15, 1852 – Aug. 24, 1889) was a revolutionary in the shoe industry with the invention of the lasting machine.

Matthew “Bud” Waters of Bud’s Shoe Repair Shop

Again, Miramar’s “Management” team resists the request by its residents to install police dashcams and equip our officers with body cams.

Black History Month a Sham

In the era of slavery, some voices used the Bible to justify the capture and sale of human beings, arguing that “God set different Orders and Degrees of Men in the World … some to be High and Honorable, … some to be born Slave, and so to remain during their lives.”

— “Fair Play Charter” seeks to address perceived bias against Black and Hispanic media owners in the advertising industry.

Black Excellence

February is Black History Month and I have been searching for a story about African American contributions to bicycling. I found the story in my bike love: bicycle travel. In my mind, the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps are trailblazers of bike touring.