One of the many ways that Florida has been dismantling education in their state and influencing similar actions across the country is whitewashing Black history.

Below is a reader addressing this assault on history, Black people, and efforts to create a more equitable democracy:

• Ron DeSantis and the State Where History Goes to Die, Jamelle Bouie
• Florida’s Black history standards are even worse than reported, Michael Harriot
• African American History (Florida Department of Education)
• Telling Tales of History: The Florida Problem – CAFE

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See Also

“Every white person in this country…knows one thing,” James Baldwin (1979)

Listening to Langston Hughes about “Make America Great Again”