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you know, we've been talking a lot about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, an unarmed black man, there's been conversations about race, policing and about power and its abuse for years. complicated, of course, by the fact that the five officers charged in nichols death are also black. that's about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. and why it's become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida, where the republican governor, ron desantis, have been slamming a new a....

Contestable point of view. >> the ceo of the college board, david coleman, said that's not what they're doing. what they're doing is reparations movement is something that will still be taught in the class, something that actually the students themselves can write their final research project on, if they want to. and there's no limitations on what sourcing they want to use for that research project. and that teachers and the coursework welcomes them to use whatever sourcing they want to use. they're not mandating what they can do when they're crafting that entire research project on whatever s...

Courses, when they are finalized, they do not mandate secondary sourcing. they do not mandate that a student has to read a specific work -- a specific book or a specific document that was written by secondary sources at all. whether it's latin american history. whether it's asian-american history. mexican-american history. those are not in the courses. he was saying that eventually, that was not going to be something that was finalized in the a.p. coursework. >> the idea of why, and this idea, if you're working and the talk points around a document that was never intended to be more than an in...

That requires the removal of some instructional days. and some of the topics, let's be clear about this, that are in the initial document from february of 2022, is currently not in the pilot that the teachers are teaching at the 60-plus schools across the united states. >> this is so important to get this clarity. i think there is the perception. this is the way the power of the narrative that's emerged from all of this. it's important to demystify the process but to clarify and fact-check what has been said. governor desantis spoke about the idea of not understanding the need to have a separa...

>> reporter: as for professor dunn, he's now part of a lawsuit against the state's stop woke law, being uncomfortable, he says, is part of learning and understanding the history that is often overlooked. >> this is what happened here. a man had been massacred at this spot. but every community in this country has spots like this. places where blacks have been abused, killed and forgotten about. this is not unique to miami. >> reporter: this morning when governor desantis was asked about the release of the new coursework, he said he hadn't read through it yet. his office tells me the florida dep...