The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, May 31, 2021

tulsa race massacre — “Here in Tulsa, the echoes of Jim Crow continue to haunt, and in some ways shape, the city. For Goodwin and many other African Americans who grew up here, the reminders are everywhere. Walk through the Greenwood neighborhood, Goodwin says, and you can’t miss the metal plaques on sidewalks commemorating the hundreds of black-owned businesses set ablaze during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. For 18 hours beginning the night of May 31, white mobs raced through Greenwood — known as “Black Wall Street” for its thriving African American-owned businesses — tossing Molotov cocktails, torching churches and hospitals, leaving nearly 300 black people dead and forcing thousands to flee.” From “This newspaper has never forgotten the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and its fight continues,” Los Angeles Times. (Tulsa Race Massacre 1921 by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com)

Today at a glance: Bedraggled and jittery though it is, Palm Coast government–what’s left of it–this morning at 8 hosts its traditional Memorial Day ceremony at Heroes Park. Its mayor having resigned and its acting mayor in Europe, the day’s speech falls on Council member Nick Klufas. U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, fresh from voting against establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, will also speak, likely in the presence of one or two elected officials who took part in the demonstrations in D.C. that day. The county hosts its ceremony at 10 a.m. in front of the Government Services Building. In Tallahassee, more than 200 Black servicemen and servicewomen interred at the Greenwood Cemetery will be honored in a Memorial Day observance led by U.S. Rep. Al Lawson. All state and local government offices are closed, as are schools, on observance of the holiday. Florida’s sales tax “holiday” for hurricane supplies is ongoing, through June 6. If you’re planning to grill, It’ll be partly cloudy in Palm Coast with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms and highs in the mid 80s, with winds 10 to 15 mph. It’ll be a few degrees cooler in Flagler Beach, but with double the chance of showers, mainly after 5 p.m., and breezier, with gusts of up to 28 mph. Pointless tidbit: The Pont Neuf (the New Bridge), one of Paris’ most elegant bridges and its oldest, got its first stone–King Henry III lifted it in place–in 1578.

The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. It was suspended in March 2020 as was the Daily Briefing, as the Covid pandemic upended everyone’s schedules. We’re happy to be bringing both back, in altered forms. The Live Calendar had a serious case of covid: it’s much skinnier, less populated and still recovering, the previous calendar having been scrapped altogether. It’s slowly being rebuilt as local events ramp back up, with one significant change: now you can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.

Saturday, May 10

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Murder at Shivering Timbers Murder Mystery Dinner Show Fundraiser

Palm Coast Community Center

Saturday, May 10

7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre

City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace

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“Many conservatives came to regard railroads as the preeminent instrument of an erotic force that would, unless stringent measures were taken, destroy the French family and substitute for France itself a mongrel pornocracy governed by queens all in the image of Manet’s Olympia. “The railroads, exercising a bizarre influence on the intellectual as well as the economic state of society, pour into Paris every day a mobile but tightly packed mass of bustling provincials whose literary culture is, to say the least, slapdash and vagrant,” wrote J.J. Weiss in Theater and Manners, referring to the exodus from rural France that saw Paris’s population treble between 1830 and 1880.”

–From Frederick Brown’s “Zola: A Life” (1995).

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Pogo says

May 31, 2021 at 7:54 am

@FlaglerLive

Ovation, for the return of the (and improved) briefing. All that’s lacking from a total restoration is a cat and a coda.

Truly,

Thank You

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