A first step: Creative Loafing’s first step will be to include more stories that reflect the full diversity of Tampa Bay’s population. We would hope that other media outlets would take similar pledges. A wider first step would be for public and private schools in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties to include specific demographic and cultural information about Tampa Bay in high-school social studies courses, something that is not part of the larger history and civics curricula at this point.
Resources
The Hispanic Business Initiative Fund, hbiftampa.org
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2008.