After Florida rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many residents raised their voices over how slavery was being downplayed.
Marvin Dunn of the Miami Center for Racial Justice leads a rally against Florida's new history curriculum.After Florida's governor and education department rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many students, parents, educators and elected officials raised their voices over how slavery was being presented.
Marvin Dunn of the Miami Center for Racial Justice leads a rally against Florida's new history curriculum.Dunn and other educators have banded together with parents and students and formed a non-profit coalition, the Miami Center for Racial Justice, to protest Florida's new curriculum and raise awareness for the Black history that they say is being erased from classrooms.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis looks on, on the day of the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in New York, Sept. 11, 2023."They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into things later in life," DeSantis said during a news conference in July.
Juana Jones, a Miami middle school teacher and parent, however, told ABC News she was concerned about this major change to teaching slavery.
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