132 reactions · 51 shares | Bellefonte, Pa. houses rich stories and landmarks of Black history, including St. Paul AME Church, founded in the 1800s, and believed to be part of the Underground Railroad. Its history has been preserved by local historians, as have many other aspects of Black history in central Pennsylvania. Watch Keystone Stories: Black History Keepers on Thursday, May 26, at 8:00 p.m. on WPSU-TV and PBS Passport: https://www.pbs.org/show/keystone-stories/ | WPSU | Facebook

Some of the first Southern police forces were created to control enslaved Black people. "The surveillance, the deputization, essentially, of all white men to be police officers — and then to dispense corporal punishment on the scene — are all baked in from the very beginning," says Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad. | NPR