Black History Month has now become an educational target in Florida schools. In the wake of the state’s strenuous laws on education, parents in one school system are now required to give their consent for their children to learn about the month-long celebration, which has bee...
In the post-Reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws were enacted; schools and public transportation were segregated; poll taxes, grandfather clauses, intimidation and violence prevented Black Floridians from voting. Convict leasing (of individuals arrested on trumped up crimes like vagrancy) and debt ...
Her remarks joined a chorus of criticism in response to theFlorida Board of Education’s new standards for teaching Black historyin public schools. The 216-page document, approved last Wednesday, details Black history lessons that selectively omit or obscure facts about Am...
Florida A&M is a highly rated public university located in Tallahassee, Florida. As a historically black college, FAMU has a strong history of and commitment to the education of black Americans. It is a mid-size institution with an enrollment of 6,640 undergraduate students. Admissions is fair...
Florida State has centers in Florence, Italy; London; Panama City, Panama; and Valencia, Spain, and offers students other study abroad programs. The university also has a wide variety of graduate schools, including a College of Business, a College of Law and a College of Medicine, as well ...
The legal action comes amid a push by Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who isn't named in the lawsuit, to allow the censorship and challenging of books based on whether they are appropriate for children in schools. More from CBS News Trump meets with NATO head in Florida for ...
MEDIA RUNNING WILD WITH KAMALA HARRIS' ‘LIE’ ON FLORIDA'S BLACK HISTORY EDUCATION, CURRICULUM CO-AUTHOR SAYS While schools in other states battle over policies that keep gender transitions from parent, this district instead voiced its skepticism about whether they even would be allowed to do so...
School and Community Loss, Yet Still Imagined in the Oral History of School Segregation in Tampa, FloridaThis chapter examines how former students remember Middleton and Blake, two historically Black high schools in Tampa, as communities prior to desegregation. In 1971, the local school board ...
Accreditation:Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Tuition:$5,656 #9.FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY Florida A&M University has enjoyed a long history of being among Florida’s best historically black colleges (HBCU). The school was founded in 1887, and in 1907, it becam...
As Black students were generally barred, particularly in the South, from established institutions, critics questioned whether separate schools in fact hindered efforts toward social and economic equality with whites. Graduates of Tuskegee UniversityGraduation ceremony at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama...