JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A task force designed a year ago at Duval County Public Schools is working to develop an improved curriculum that ensures African American history be taught inside and out of the ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two days before the end of Black History Month, the Florida Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force met in Tallahassee. AAHTF members told 10 Investigates ...
The vice-chair of the Florida Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force is taking action days after our investigation. Task Force vice-chair Dr. Samuel Wright has now sent a ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A member of Florida’s African American History Task Force claims the body was largely cut out of the development of the state’s new African American History standards. The ...
A state task force this week chose St. Johns County, not Eatonville in Orange County, as the location for a proposed Florida Museum of Black History. The Florida Museum of Black History Task Force ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Education Commissioner Manny Diaz publicly recognized the African American History Task Force for helping to craft the state’s new controversial Black History standards. However, two ...
Nearly three decades ago, Florida passed a landmark measure requiring that Black history be taught in its public schools. “Knowledge is the antidote to the poison of prejudice,” Gov. Lawton Chiles (D) ...
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Newly approved rules for teaching Black history in Florida are drawing criticism around the country. The guidelines -- approved by the state's board of education last Wednesday -- ...
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough County schools are launching an African-American history task force aimed at improving and expanding the district's curriculum. Students and educators involved in the effort ...
Wilmington is working to address this complicated history through the City Council Reparations Task Force, which was launched in December with nine appointed members. The task force will meet at least ...