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The $50,000 grants from the SPLC, a nonprofit advocating for racial justice, also come with billboards advertising the museums.
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Dinkins, who knew the writer, was a longtime resident of Eatonville, Fla., which was founded by freed slaves in 1887. She helped start the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.
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It was a dramatic moment in October, 2019: Eatonville Mayor Eddie Cole confiscated a $25,000 check to a construction company owned by the town's former…
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Eatonville is one of the oldest black towns in the US. N.Y. Nathiri of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community and landscape architect Everett Fly join Intersection to explore why this town has survived.
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Almost a century after publishers rejected it, a book by Eatonville writer Zora Neale Hurston is finally being released.In 1931, six years before her…
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Aloma Bowl is celebrating its 40th anniversary Saturday because Winter Park City Council and some brave intelligent high schoolers saved it from getting…
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Happy Birthday to Eatonville! The town is celebrating 130 years at an event this weekend. We look at what’s in store for the town known as one of the first self-governing black municipalities in the U.S.
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Eatonville is one of the oldest black towns in the US. Back in the 1980's there were plans to widen a road through the town. Those plans were shelved after residents led an effort to show how the road would destroy the historic character of Eatonville. N.Y. Nathiri of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community and landscape architect Everett Fly join Intersection to explore why this town has survived where other black towns have not.
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Eatonville’s community garden is flourishing. The challenge for the gardeners in this historic Black town is finding the funding to keep it going, and keep supplying the community with organic veges. We tour the plot where master gardener Ruford Shepherd grows okra, corn, squash and more.
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A committee in Eatonville has narrowed down a developer to transform the site of the town's historic Hungerford boarding school. The town hopes the development becomes a source of tax revenue and community building.