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Miami-Dade County school officials are facing backlash over its so-called permission slip policy. But teaching African American history is required by state statute and Miami-Dade schools comply with that throughout the year, the district’s chief academic officer said.
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Senate Bill 1312 would create Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, a legal holiday that would be celebrated the fourth Thursday in March every year in Florida. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military pilots in our nation’s armed forces.
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The abhorrent state of the Westview Community Cemetery is at the center of a legal battle over who is in charge of its operation, upkeep and land — some of which was contentiously sold to a developer who planned an industrial office park.
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Frank Wooden comes to work everyday to restore a historical, Black cemetery in Miami's Brownsville neighborhood. “When I’m coming here, I’m coming home again,” he says. This story comes from NPR's Next Generation Radio's Florida newsroom.
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A new historic marker in Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood details the 1925 lynching of Black resident Arthur Henry. The details of his murder came to light only a few years ago. It's part of an effort to shed light on the region's racially charged past.
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The famous jazz venue was set to re-open last winter after years of planning delays and a nearly $20 million tax-funded renovation.
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Veterans Day is a big deal at Frank C. Martin International K-8 Center in Richmond Heights in southwest Miami-Dade. The neighborhood was founded as a home for Black veterans returning from World War II. Every year, students at the school celebrate local service members.
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Emmanuel George is an archivist and community historian who created the Black Broward Instagram page to share pieces of Broward’s Black history. It’s a peek into all the different kinds of work he’s doing to highlight Broward’s Black history.
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Descendants of early Palm Beach County settlers will discuss rarely explored stories about how Black and white residents worked together to advance social causes, in a discussion at the Norton Museum of Art on Nov. 2.
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Tameka Hobbs manages the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center in Sistrunk — Fort Lauderdale's historically Black neighborhood. They partnered with the Black History Project to start a Black History Saturday School in Broward County.
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Marvin Dunn, an authority on race in America, discusses what it was like to grow up in Florida during segregation. A Florida law bans his books on Black history in classrooms.
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Amid bans on teaching controversial topics related to race, Black families have embraced schools that affirm their African American heritage.