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<p>Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War<br>—</p><p>City officials say the state’s plan to wrest back control of the police department is an attempt by white conservatives to weaken Black political influence. It’s part of a broader pattern of Missouri Republicans trying to override the will of voters.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/st-louis-police-missouri-gop-control-tishaura-jones-civil-war?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/st-louis-police-missouri-gop-control-tishaura-jones-civil-war?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/st-</span><span class="invisible">louis-police-missouri-gop-control-tishaura-jones-civil-war?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/missouri/" rel="tag">#Missouri</a> <a href="/tags/civilwar/" rel="tag">#CivilWar</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a></p>

<p>As a grad student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S.</p><p>The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston.</p><p>(Published Oct. 2024)<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/charleston-slave-auction-historical-marker?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/charleston-slave-auction-historical-marker?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/cha</span><span class="invisible">rleston-slave-auction-historical-marker?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/southcarolina/" rel="tag">#SouthCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/juneteenth/" rel="tag">#Juneteenth</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#USHistory</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a></p>

<p>On Juneteenth, here&#x27;s a new Surf feed from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Flipboard</span></a></span> that focuses on America&#x27;s Black history, today and every day. </p><p><a href="https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jy4yj0jmq7jcek145g0s0j0a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jy4yj0jmq7jcek145g0s0j0a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom</span><span class="invisible">%2F01jy4yj0jmq7jcek145g0s0j0a</span></a></p><p>If you&#x27;d like to try Surf, sign up for the beta here, using the invite code SURFSHARES. </p><p><a href="https://waitlist.surf.social/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>waitlist.surf.social/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/surffeeds/" rel="tag">#SurfFeeds</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/juneteenth/" rel="tag">#Juneteenth</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> @histodons @blackmastodon</p>

<p>In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/albany</span><span class="invisible">-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>

<p>Julian McKenzie, a dear friend and godfather of my son, has written a book on Black hockey history, which I enjoyed and probably people who follow hockey would enjoy even more - you can see an interview about it here and buy it most places :</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/eVKimpkNVzc" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/eVKimpkNVzc</a></p><p><a href="/tags/hockey/" rel="tag">#hockey</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a></p>

<p>Join me Wednesday @ 6pm EST/5pm CST when <a href="/tags/muscoment/" rel="tag">#MusComEnt</a> pre-games <a href="/tags/valentinesday/" rel="tag">#ValentinesDay</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a>-style with Barry Jenkins’s film version of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018). Available for free on Kanopy and here (<a href="https://ok.ru/video/3679110826543" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ok.ru/video/3679110826543</a>) <br>(1/4)</p>

<p>New lecture video &quot;Black Georgians, Spanish Florida, and the Seminole&quot; freely available at the Georgia Archives YouTube page; you can access this from the Archives&#x27; homepage. </p><p>From the beginning of the Revolutionary War to the eve of the First Seminole War in 1817, hundreds of people of color in Georgia and, to a lesser extent, South Carolina crossed the borders and boundaries separating the Lowcountry from Spanish coastal Florida and from the Seminole. This counter-narrative in American history is a potent reminder of the strength of Black resistance in the post-Revolutionary South and of this community’s ability to shape the balance of power in a contested region.</p><p>Dr. Paul Pressly is the author of &quot;&quot;A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians, Spanish Florida, and Indian Country&quot; from the University of Georgia Press. </p><p><a href="/tags/spanishflorida/" rel="tag">#SpanishFlorida</a> <a href="/tags/seminole/" rel="tag">#Seminole</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/peopleofcolor/" rel="tag">#PeopleOfColor</a> <a href="/tags/undergroundrailroad/" rel="tag">#UndergroundRailroad</a> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://georgiaarchives.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>georgiaarchives.org/</a></p>