In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days. Rosewood ...

Lizzie Robinson Jenkins didn’t want to spend the rest of her life researching Rosewood. But she had to. Needed to. It was her destiny after all: The false accusation against her uncle sparked the ...

ROSEWOOD, Fla. — Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’s living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of early 1900s history. Tables are littered with artifacts from her aunt, including frayed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Black family’s home in flames in January 1923 amid race riots following allegations that a Black man had attacked a white woman.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I doubt we’ll ever know the macabre truth of what happened in Rosewood, Florida, on the first of January, 100 years ago. We won’t learn about it on TV, and our children won’t learn ...

WAS NORMALIZED. THIS IS THE ERA WE START WITH TONIGHT. THE STORY WHICH HAPPENED NEARLY 300 MILES AWAY, IT’S BEEN 100 YEARS SINCE THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. FIVE BLACK PEOPLE AND TWO ...