The nation’s oldest Black fraternity is pulling its 2025 convention out of Florida in protest of the state's approval of a new public educational curriculum that indicates some Black people benefited from slavery.
in public schools and about other policies that some consider to be anti-gay or anti-immigration.
Lonzer estimates Orlando will miss out on at least $15 million in revenue from the convention. More than 10,000 people — about half of whom were registered Alpha Phi Alpha brothers — recently flocked to Dallas for the organization’s 97th annual national convention. The other half were people from other organizations who joined the festivities. With its policies, Florida, Lonzer said, has “blown an opportunity” for revenue in Orlando and the state more broadly.
“We have nine strong leaders, and we will work together and really cut out new opportunities for us to try and employ pressures that will be favorable for the communities that we support,” he said. “Alpha Phi Alpha is strong, all of the other organizations are strong … but united, we’re even stronger.”
“in solidarity against insensitive, discriminatory, and racist policies being promoted in the State of Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies.”The fraternity Omega Psi Phi plans to head to Tampa for its national conclave in July 2024. Leaders have not announced plans to move it at this point, which has been a point of controversy within Omega, some of its members have told NBC News.
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