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Florida Approves Controversial Guidelines for Black History Curriculum. Here's What to Know
Time via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCredit - Getty Images Florida’s Board of Education approved new guidelines for its Black history...
Remembering Rosewood: Descendants mark racial violence that razed Florida town 100 years ago
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoROSEWOOD, Fla. — Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’s living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of...
Two Florida cities, two paths: Former ‘sundown towns’ grapple with their pasts
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the last 100 years, nearly a dozen Florida towns carried the label of “sundown towns,” but these...
Florida’s struggle to teach Black history has become a battle over who controls the past
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoFor 71 years, the survivors of Rosewood controlled their history. They guardedly discussed their...
Gov. DeSantis: Do the right thing and reverse your stand on AP course
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe board of directors and supporters of the Florida Democratic Black Women’s Consortium (FDBWC)...
‘We need to hear it.’ This tour explores Florida’s horrific history of racial violence
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoThe John Wright house remains the final relic of Rosewood. Hidden behind the trees that dot the...
Why teaching honest history is paramount
theGrio via AOL· 8 months agoOPINION: We must urgently stand up and speak out against conservative-led efforts to whitewash or erase Black history, which is truly American history....
Letters to the editor for Sunday, June 26, 2022
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSupport outstanding Collier school board If you have children who attend the Collier County Public Schools, please pay attention to the upcoming school...
112-year-old Black fraternal organization denounces Gov. DeSantis for 'racist policies'
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe same day the Florida Board of Education approved a controversial new curriculum for African...
Century-old secret: Nearly lynched for killing Klansmen, how Oscar Mack escaped Kissimmee
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt was a call 100 years overdue. Renee Bronson is the great-granddaughter of Stewart Ivey, a Ku Klux...
