The latest controversy comes after DeSantisrejected a pilot programfor an Advanced Placement class in African American studies earlier this year, calling it "indoctrination." The line about "personal benefit" for enslaved people has drawn criticism from both sides of the political aisle. ...
"CBS Mornings" put a spotlight on the "growing controversy over Florida’s new education standards that call for middle schoolers to be taught that some enslaved people actually benefited from slavery." {{#rendered}}{{/rendered}} Perhaps the most egregious was MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who to...
The growth of HBCUs spurred controversy among prominent African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some critics noted that many HBCUs, particularly those existing in the years immediately following the Civil War, were founded by whites, many of whom had negative preconceptions of...
DIVESTMENT DEBATE —“Recent protests over USF’s financial ties harken to a 1980s controversy,”reports the Tampa Bay Times’ Divya Kumar. “Earlier this month, the University of South Florida student senate passed a bill calling on the school to stop investing in companies that support Isr...
How this position had come about is quite interesting and integral to the controversy that Vero Man would ignite. Ever since the discovery by Europeans of an advanced indigenous civilization in the New World, Western scholarship immediately set out to disprove any possibility that these cultures had...
(see my HD1 breakdown) – a bombastic figure that causes controversy for them. Sabatini was relegated to a basement office after months of feuding with GOP leaders; including calling Speaker Sprowls a “beta” and fellow GOP member Thad Altman a “cuck”. After missing out on many meetings ...
7:33 a.m. Spano created controversy last year when Orlando Weekly reported that he “liked” a Twitter porn clip while declaring porn a public health risk through a resolution that passed in the most recent legislative session Alexandra GloriosoPolitical and health care reporter for POLITICO Flor...
Several parents and teachers plan to protest Carrasquilla’s exit at Monday night’s school board meeting, but Carrasquilla said she isn’t sure she would take the job back even if it were offered. “There’s been such controversy and such upheaval,” she said. “I woul...
Gov. Ron DeSantis, who last year signed a law that prevents abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, is helping lead efforts to fight the ballot initiative. Also, the Agency for Health Care Administration has been embroiled in a controversy about information it has posted about abortion on a ...
The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation launched after the beating death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in 2023 ...