A Charleston preservation group’s effort to preserve Mosquito Beach, a gathering place for African American residents and visitors during segregation that has historical significance as a community ...

Mayor Cantrell has launched a study to assess reopening Lincoln Beach. Mayor LaToya Cantrell is looking into re-opening Lincoln Beach, the long-shuttered African American beach in New Orleans East.

Sarasota, Florida's white sand beaches and crystal-clear waters draw visitors from far and wide, but they weren't always so welcoming. "Few of our guests, our international and domestic tourists who ...

The irony of Log Cabin Beach is that though it is a piece of local history that living people remember, there isn’t much to commemorate the black institution in an area steeped in tributes to ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — It was just a different era is all George Williams can say when he thinks about growing up in the 1950s and '60s as a kid. He said it's a period in his life marked by segregation.

Boynton Beach city commissioners this week repealed a slate of century-old Jim Crow-era laws still on the books that were designed to keep Black residents segregated. Two ordinances, adopted by the ...

Elmira Gilbert survived the hardships of the catastrophic hurricane of 1928 and racial segregation in almost nine decades of living in West Palm Beach’s often neglected northwest neighborhoods. She ...