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Dr. Marvin Dunn was stunned to learn that children needed signed permission slips to listen to him speak about his family's experience during the Jim Crow era. He is also among the educators engaged in a fight against Florida's Stop WOKE Act.

One Miami school distributed a form requesting parental consent for students to take part in events for Black History Month.

A Coral Gables bookstore and a church, which calls itself “a sanctuary for banned books,” were behind the Banned Books Week event.

 

MIAMI — As Noelle Barnes listened to Justin Pearson speak to the crowd, she wept. “When he was on stage, his passionate rallying cry for truth brought tears to my

As backlash to Florida’s new Black history education standards grows, teachers say they are struggling to navigate what they can and cannot say inside their classrooms, while some parents are turning to alternative methods to educate their children about Black history.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

(CNN) — Middle school students in Mayade Ersoff’s Miami-Dade social studies class learn about the history of slavery in America through art.

Middle school students are required to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” | World News

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN