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9/13 Today in Florida History from the Florida Historical Society!

1597 – Father Pedro de Corpa, a Franciscan mission priest, was killed on this date by Guale Indians during a revolt at the Tolomato Mission in northeast Florida (now southeast Georgia). The Spanish mission system in Florida and Georgia was originally designed only for the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity, but the missions became important centers for social interaction and trade between Europeans and Native Americans. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, however, most of the Spanish missions in the interior of Florida were abandoned due to the decline and relocation of many Native American groups.

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court denies a request to reconsider Tulsa Race Massacre lawsuit dismissal The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to reconsider its ruling to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the two known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

The fund will invest in companies across health IT, digital health, tech-enabled services, diagnostic devices, biotech, medical device manufacturing, and consumer health and wellness, according to a press release.

This $55 Million Fund Invests Exclusively in Black Owned Healthcare Startups Jumpstart Nova is the first fund that invests exclusively in Black owned healthcare startups in the US.The fund recently announced

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According to Pew Research Center, 8% of Black Americans identify as vegan or vegetarian, which is more than three times the rate of the general population, which is 3%. This makes Black Americans the fastest-growing vegan demographic in the United States.

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“The market value is trapped as in the South is estimated at $42 Billion!"

In May 2024, the Florida Board of Education approved updated social studies standards for the state, including new requirements for teaching African American history. The 217-page standards are set to take effect for the 2024 school year and include new instruction on the Sept. 11 attacks and Asian American and Pacific Islander history. However, the standards have also drawn criticism for their framing of certain topics, including slavery.

Some of the most controversial aspects of the standards include:

Enslaved people gained skills
The standards require teachers to instruct middle school students that enslaved people developed skills that could be used for their "personal benefit". Some opponents have called these standards "atrocious" and say that there are no benefits to slavery.

The 1921 Massacre
The standards also include lessons on the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, which involved white supremacists burning down a wealthy Black community and killing at least 300 Black residents. The standards suggest that African Americans were responsible for instigating the massacre, which some opponents have called a "contortion of U.S. history".

The and
The standards clarify that high school instruction on the Rosewood and Ocoee massacres should include acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.

The Olympic Educational Reconstruction...100 years after the 1924 🕵👀

Republicans want to take Florida educational model nationwide with party platform Under former President Donald Trump, education across the country would look a lot like it does in Florida

University of Florida Honors Student Puts the World on Notice

Let Me Be Angry Performance: Kimberly Nesmith, UF Honors StudentOccassion: Royalty Celebration for Mr. and Mrs. James and Elizabeth Nesmith 62nd Wedding Anniversary and Crys...

The Spelman archives contain photos of students tilling a garden on campus, said Benoit, including one image taken in front of Giles Hall without a gate. The lack of a gate is significant. It meant the college had a closer connection to the community beyond its campus.

“Whenever there’s an urban garden, an urban farm, and no gate, the community is getting fed. It wasn’t only the students here on this campus, but [the community] is getting fed,” she said.

Atlanta’s thriving vegan food scene got its start in the Black communities of West End While growing in popularity across America, vegan restaurants aren’t new to many Atlanta communities. Although the city has seen an increase in plant-based restaurants over the last decade, veganism has deep roots in the city’s westside neighborhoods, dating back decades. This is especially true...

"The Scientific Development of the Negro," 50th Anniversary of the Charter of MIT / 10 April 1911

Robert Robinson Taylor Robert Robinson Taylor was an American architect and educator. Taylor was the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first accredited African-American architect when he graduated in 1892. He was an early and influential member of the Tuskegee In...

How your 40 Acres were Sectioned Off to the WARDen

40 Acres and a Lie On this special summer series episode of the South Carolina Lede for July 09, 2024: a look at a new limited podcast series called “40 Acres and a Lie,” a three-part series from Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity, that tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that ga...

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1903-1960 Duval Ash Incinerators - Wetland Disaster Prevention

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On July 9, 1868, South Carolina and Louisiana were the final two states for the necessary three-quarter vote needed for the adoption of the 14th Amendment. With these states ratifying the Amendment, it was passed and adopted on the same day and made part of the US Constitution.

The 14th Amendment is by far one of the most important and influential Amendments to the US Constitution. It was conceived by “Radical Republicans” under the direction of Thaddeus Stevens in April of 1866 as a continuation of the newly passed Civil Rights Act of 1866, to ensure the protection and permanence of the act.

The 14th Amendment not only specifically outlined the citizen question for Black Americans as, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, … are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” But it also outlined the “due process” and “equal protection of the laws” for these new citizens.

While the 14th Amendment was never fully realized during the Reconstruction period, it has been the foundation of many important Supreme Court Decisions since its ratification, like: Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, and Obergefell v. Hodges.

“Scene in the House on the Passage of the Proposition to Amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865” (Harper’s Weekly: New York, NY, February 18, 1865). Internet Archive.

Historically in the United States, the complicity of the federal government and legal system as a whole in land theft began with the emphasis of states’ and property rights.

https://theemancipator.org/2024/06/25/books/how-land-theft-decimated-black-communities/

Did you know that residential heirs’ property accounts for up to 11% of parcels in some counties in the Southeast? Additionally, 55% of all adults and 72% of nonwhite adults do not have a will, leading to future generations of heirs’ property issues. In serving the City of Atlanta, I’ve seen numerous examples underscoring the importance of estate planning.