BY TYLER GILLESPIE, Neighborhood News Bureau A bleached-blonde woman sat down in barber Dale Jones’s chair for a free fade on Martin Luther King Jr.
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MLK Essay Contest celebrated community and inclusion
BY EVELYN GUERRA, Neighborhood News Bureau Tyna Middleton, the Enoch Davis Center Senior Advisory Council Secretary, and Virginia Scott shared a hug before Scott gave
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Historic Women’s Organization Hosts “Hidden Figures” Screening for Local Girls
BY GRACE CUNNINGHAM, Neighborhood News Bureau The St. Petersburg Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosted a screening of the film “Hidden Figures”
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Having the ‘Talk’: Help Us Help U provides sex education to young adults in poor communities
Listen to the audio file here: http:// By Devin Rodriguez Pinellas County is ranked number one in Acute Hepatitis C in Florida. It’s ranked number
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NNB in the media: Midtown comes into focus as USFSP students share neighborhood stories
NNB was featured on 83 Degrees Media in a story by Janan Talafer and photos by Julie Branaman. Please read the full story here.
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Community Grant Program to Up Its Funding In 2017
The city of St. Petersburg approved the CRA, a community redevelopment financing grant. Find out more about what this means for the Midtown community in
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Where are the voices of Midtown in the Tropicana Field redevelopment?
“Even though the construction of Tropicana Field did, in some ways, bring new life to the city according to some, the stadium was a catalyst
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Midtown Plaza struggles to stay in business
“Going grocery shopping for the week is a chore within itself. Without any means of transportation, that errand often becomes an all-day affair. This situation
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John Lewis talks to St. Petersburg
Lewis speaks on the importance of voting, optimism in the face of fear, and endorses Charlie Crist BY JONAH KING Neighborhood News Bureau Civil rights is
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Pew Research Center: Civic Engagement Strongly Tied to Local News Habits
The Pew Research Center released a new study that shows that people who get their information from local news outlets are more likely to be
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