In this week’s Florida History Podcast we discuss the history of lynchings in Florida and the debate over racial reconciliation in the 1990’s and 2000’s related to lynchings and racial violence. NOTE: we plan to have individual podcasts in the future on specific events like Rosewood, this is a general narrative.
We’ve reached a new peak in COVID-19 cases this week in the state. In fact, each day brings more surprises and when dig deeper into the data reports, the pandemic is getting incrementally worse as time goes by. As I wrote about earlier in the week, those vigilant about public health, face incredible social stigma’s […]
Intimidation, thuggery and cognitive dissonance are making it difficult for Floridians to wear masks in public.
Editors Note: In light of recent events we are re-running this article which first appeared in February. President Trump’s citation of “Gone with the Wind” as an American film worthy of commendation while ripping a film by a Korean-producer could not have been an accident – it has to have been a carefully-scripted dog whistle […]
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In this week’s edition of The Florida History Podcast we talk about the “Condo Commandos”, some of the most influential figures in Florida politics from the late 1970’s until the early 2000’s. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have […]
With civil disobedience and protests at an apex the last week after the murder of George Floyd and the killing is several other African-Americans, it is important to think about a time when a southern President who prior to 1957, had opposed Civil; Rights effectively partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. The amount of scholarship […]
Florida’s seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases is at its highest point since mid-April. Yet Florida has just gone to “Phase 2” reopening in 64 of 67 counties including especially hard hit ones like Collier, Lee, Orange and Hillsborough. Enough pulling punches on this website expressing misunderstandings or differing political philosophies in the continued rise […]
With civil disobedience and protests at an apex the last week after the murder of George Floyd, it is timely to recall the critical role Florida played in the passage of Civil Rights legislation- specifically St Augustine which the epicenter of MLK Jr. and SLC activity during the Senate filibuster of the historic Civil Rights […]
A campaign orchestrated by multiple elected officials and activists to reopen Florida in May, ending COVID-19 lockdown restrictions dominated our political conversations in April and early May. Our state begin its reopening in early May, in phases. Governor Ron DeSantis adopted a data-based approach to the phased reopening, which on the surface appeared deliberative and […]
The Florida Squeeze 