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August 17, 2023

Protesters Decry Erasure, Rewriting of Black History from Florida Schools
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Hundreds of people marched to the School Board of Miami-Dade County on
Wednesday to protest changes to how Black history is taught in Florida's
schools. The new standards require students be taught about the
"benefits" of slavery. One section of the curriculum states that
enslaved people "developed skills which, in some instances, could be
applied for their personal benefit." Florida governor and Republican
presidential candidate Ron De Santis has defended the new curriculum
changes. Speakers at Wednesday's rally included Tennessee state
Representative Justin Pearson, who made national headlines when he and
his colleague Justin Jones were expelled from Tennessee's
Republican-dominated legislative body.


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