Stay updated with breaking news from John Chavis. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Outraged at the new Black history standards in Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday blasted what she called revisionist history promoted in the state’s African American history standards approved this week by top education officials. Just two days after the State Board of Education approved the standards, Harris told the crowd in Jacksonville at […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis had a difficult weekend on the culture war front, re-doubling his defense of the state’s controversial new Black history standards as a new report revealed a now-infamous anti-LGBTQ ad was actually made within the campaign itself. A pro-DeSantis account also tweeted a video that included alleged imagery of a Nazi symbol. Though reports that it had been retweeted by a DeSantis ...
Historic sources show several of the 16 individuals cited by the Florida Department of Education were never even slaves.
Many of the figures they cite as slavery’s “beneficiaries” were never enslaved.
The Washington Post Editorial Board published an opinion piece attacking the state’s Board of Education standards on slavery and African American history.