Today is Juneteenth—a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. After the Civil War, many freed slaves relocated to the Steptoe neighborhood just south of Westport to start new chapters of their lives. A number of Steptoe residents worked at Saint Luke’s through the years, making countless positive contributions to the health of our city. Last year, Saint Luke's joined community members to celebrate a new street sign that recognized the return of West 43rd Terrace—adjacent to Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City—to its original name of Steptoe Street. While the landscape of this area has changed, Steptoe’s impact and memory live on. Saint Luke’s is proud to collaborate with the Steptoe Lives coalition to keep its legacy and memory alive and ensure that future generations may also know and honor the Steptoe legacy. #Juneteenth
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#ConfederateHeroesDay is a state holiday observed in Texas on the third Monday of January. It officially commemorates the lives of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee, as well as other Confederate soldiers who died during the American Civil War. The Lost Cause narrative, which romanticized the Confederacy and portrayed the Civil War as a fight for states' rights rather than slavery, gained traction during this period. This narrative influenced how Confederate figures like Lee were remembered. However, the holiday remains a source of controversy due to its historical and symbolic significance. The holiday initially began in 1931 as separate observances for the birthdays of Jefferson Davis (June 3rd) and Robert E. Lee (January 19th). Confederate Heroes' Day is a complex and controversial holiday with a deep-rooted history. As the United States continues to grapple with its legacy of slavery and racial injustice, the debate over Confederate commemorations is likely to continue. Learn more: https://ads247365.com #ConfederateHeroesDay2024 #ConfederateHeroesDay #soldiers #USA #ADS247365
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I grew up on land that once became a civil war battlefield. At one time, my family enslaved people. Some of them fought in the war on what I have always considered the wrong side, despite my conservative upbringing. I grew up hating that war and everything it represented. To wrestle with white supremacy and enslavement--with white violence on Black and brown bodies--is to wrestle with myself. It is a gruesome inheritance and yet it's in my blood. I live and thrive because we didn't let them. Fighting for justice, for me, always necessarily had to include what I can only honestly say was self loathing. To defend the right cause meant I had to abandon 'ours'. But, like all binaries promoted and repeated by those who have only an academic knowledge (AHEM white collar white liberals), this never sat right to me because it wasn't the full truth as I knew it firsthand. Southern conservatives will often tell you that the civil war wasn't about slavery. It was about land, liberty and government overreach. Liberals will respond that the land cannot be separated from the enslaved people who made it profitable, and you were profiting from them, so it was always and only *really* about slavery. They're both right. And wrong. For southerners then, it *wasn't* about slavery. But that's because dehumanization is a precondition of slavery. If you don't think of someone as human, you don't consider them at all. That's an ugly truth but it's *the* truth. AND...I can also tell you that, in my modern life, the government frequently tried coming for our land. Eminent domain here, a public park (to memorialize the civil war 🙄) there, "our researchers found a cemetery we want to preserve on your land and we know it's there because we researched it so you just have to let us come confirm our theory." (There was no cemetery. All that research time and money wasted when they could have just asked the real experts.) Time and again, the government came to us with the absurd argument that the 'public good' was more important than OUR HOME and the land it sat on. Land we used to work, eat, play and love in freedom. Land control is sovereignty. Like the indigenous we stole it from, we were using, stewarding and honoring the land. But they even wanted to take it from us! Or 'pay' us a pittance for it; always invoking the "morality" of our "civic duty" to part with it. My people have no morality for land theft by the government. Or overreach. The civil war was as bloody as it was because the great colonizing tide finally picked on colonizers and we knew how to make it ugly for them. That part of my history is one I couldn't be prouder of. The cause was wrong, but the side was right. Rural white conservatives are the natural ally of global freedom fighters. It's the corrupt propaganda of rich assh*les who want us to do their dirty work for them that tells us we aren't. Not this time though. This time, we're setting the record straight. To liberation.
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As we observe Memorial Day, let's remember the bravery and sacrifice of those who served. 🇺🇸 It's a day of reflection and gratitude, reminding us of the values that drive us to serve our community with integrity and dedication. This Memorial Day, we are harnessing the power of personalized engagement and emotional connections; check out our latest blog post, https://lnkd.in/gSNDt4Up #MemorialDay #HonorAndServe #DigitalMarketingEthics #CommunityFirst #ReflectionAndGratitude
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This is our vision: to obey the Great Commission by undertaking worldwide mission which leads to the starting of many new churches, a process commonly termed ‘church planting’. But for some of us, this poses the question ‘why?’ In the latest blog post, Jon Beardon lays out some scriptural foundations to help us grapple with this question. https://lnkd.in/evYCiX7G #RMnews #RMblog #wearfamily #RMfamily
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Essential Reading for Church Leaders: Enhancing Visitor Return Rates 📚 Explore our latest blog where Kent from the Effective Church Group explains the 'connection track'—a critical strategy for integrating visitors into committed members. This piece is packed with actionable insights that are vital for any church leader aiming to improve community engagement and visitor retention. Start reading here: https://lnkd.in/eg9aZg4F #effectivechurch #churchgrowth #pastors #church #visitorintegration #communityengagement
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Black History IS American History
This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by Tattered Cover. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and and now is a New York Times Best Seller. Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old. Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains. In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado. But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families. International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family. Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth https://lnkd.in/eV3Yb6Va
