On Jan. 11, 2023, Afro-Natives and Black Seminoles from around the country gathered at the historic Seminole Inn in Indiantown, Florida. They met in the Inn’s reception area, where the walls are ...

The Black Cultural Heritage Trail, a first-of-its-kind in Palm Beach County, spotlights stories often overlooked in the ...

Today, Let’s learn about - The Black Seminoles The Black Maroons of Florida, also known as Black Seminoles, Seminole Maroons, ...

They knew nothing else except to stand up and fight,” Osborne-Sampson said, of the still unsettled fight by the Black Seminole Freedman, called Freedman because they descend from those who ...

Their alliance with the native Seminole tribes resulted in a unique relationship that had never been seen before, and that changed the course of history for both the Seminoles and the State of Florida ...

(Here’s why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope.) In 1821, the Spanish ceded Florida to the U.S., sending the Seminoles and their Black counterparts farther south onto reservations near the ...

The Black Seminoles”–so lean and spare a book title. The equivalent of a gravestone lacking prayer or epitaph. But this book is an orphan, the progeny of a man who died 15 years ago.

I AM RUNNING RIVER WATER AND I’M FROM THE SAVARKAR’S BAND AND THE BIRD CLAN FROM THE SEMINOLE NATION. I AM THE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDSON OF SANDY HARRIMAN CREEK INTERPRETER THE BLACK ...

The U.S. Army in 1870 invited the Black Seminoles living in Mexico to return to the U.S. and enlist to help fight hostile native tribes in exchange for land in the Indian Territory — a promise ...

He was then a Seminole Tribe prisoner and later reenslaved by the U.S. government. Forrester was granted freedom as a Black man in the era of slavery, enslaved others, owned land and raised a ...