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Bill Gary said he isnt sure when relations with Brevard County began to go south. When they changed the locks, he realized they had never been worse.

The version of critical race theory assailed by conservative politicians and media critics is an intentional distortion, argued Butler

The community conversation will be held in the Parrish Medical Center conference room on April 16 at 1 p.m. and will a question-and-answer section.

View Comments Across Florida and the entire country, educators have noticed what they are calling a COVID-19 “learning gap” that they fear could have the same impact on some students as missing months of school. Those most deeply impacted, the teachers say, are the same students already most at risk of falling behind, such as students from poor and minority families, and students with disabilities. Local schools and community groups are setting up summer programming in the hope students...

Harry Moore, a principal at an all-Black Mims elementary school, and his wife Harriette, a teacher, were let go in the summer of 1946 after warnings from school board members for Harry to cease his political activities on behalf of oppressed Blacks across Florida. The motion, which passed at Tuesday’s school board meeting by unanimous vote, represents the first time in 75 years the board has formally acknowledged the reasons behind its failure to renew the Moores’ contracts. The resolution ...

School board may acknowledge unjust firing of two Brevard civil rights martyrs Bailey Gallion, Florida Today Replay Video UP NEXT Decades after their murders, two Black Mims educators and civil rights activists are on the cusp of having a historic injustice undone Tuesday when the school board considers restoring their status as Brevard County teachers.  A resolution up for discussion at Tuesday’s Brevard County School Board meeting would name Harry Moore and his wife Har...

In 1946, their fight to better the lives of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South cost them their jobs. Six years later, it cost them their lives. Today, Harry and Harriette Moore — a pair of Mims educators sometimes called the "first martyrs" of the modern civil rights movement — are still broadly unknown, even in the county they called home. Nearly 70 years after their deaths, that may finally change. The Brevard Federation of Teachers, with help from the Harry T. and Harriette V. Mo...