‘Freedom Won, Freedom Lost’<\/p>\n
Eugene Robinson\u2019s new book Freedom Won, Freedom Lost explores an uneven and unsteady journey of civil rights for Black Americans through a personal lens.<\/p>\n
We spoke with Robinson about Florida\u2019s efforts to ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and his own family\u2019s history alongside the march for civil rights.<\/p>\n
Guest:<\/p>\n
Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.\u00a0<\/p>\n
History of Fort Mose\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first free Black settlement in the U.S. was called Fort Mose, and it sits just north of St. Augustine, America\u2019s oldest city.<\/p>\n
A new film produced by Flagler College in St. Augustine explores this fascinating history. It\u2019s called A Book of Freedom, the Confessions of Francisco Men\u00e9ndez.<\/p>\n
Guests:<\/p>\n
Jim Gilmore, Visiting Filmmaker at Flagler College.\u00a0Zeus Xavier Scott, actor who portrayed Francisco Men\u00e9ndez.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s Black History Museum\u00a0<\/p>\n
St. Augustine will host the Florida Museum of Black History.<\/p>\n
We looked at what the future might hold for the new state museum with a member of the task force who helped choose the location.<\/p>\n
Guest:<\/p>\n
Regina Gayle Phillips, executive director of The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center.<\/p>\n
Emancipation Day in Florida\u00a0<\/p>\n
Juneteenth commemorates when Union troops made it to Texas, spreading word that enslaved Black people were freed.<\/p>\n
But that emancipation day came a few weeks earlier here in Florida when Union soldiers arrived in Tallahassee to occupy the city.<\/p>\n
Guest:<\/p>\n
Tameka Bradley Hobbs, president of the South Florida branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Freedom Won, Freedom Lost’ Eugene Robinson\u2019s new book Freedom Won, Freedom Lost explores an uneven and unsteady journey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-314099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}