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Marvin Dunn, an authority on race in America, discusses what it was like to grow up in Florida during segregation. A Florida law bans his books on Black history in classrooms.

Amid bans on teaching controversial topics related to race, Black families have embraced schools that affirm their African American heritage.

The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life.

High school and college students across Florida will walk out of their classrooms in protest of legislation that restricts what they can learn in school.

“Give Them Their Flowers” is a local exhibit paying homage to Miami's Black queer history and community. Loni Johnson is one of the participating artists. Her work focuses on honoring the people it was too late to honor in life, inviting us to remember and show love. She joined WLRN's Carlos Frías.

Eatonville, one of the first historically Black towns in the U.S., is suing the local school board to stop the sale of land that is tied up with Florida’s legacy of racial segregation and the state's fast-paced growth nowadays.

“Give Them Their Flowers,” a new exhibition at the Little Haiti Cultural Center Art Gallery, displays and celebrates Miami’s under-documented Black LGBTQ community at a time when Florida’s government has become increasingly hostile toward Black and LGBTQ representation.

Bea Hines' dream of becoming a writer wasn't encouraged by her friends and family when she was growing up. But she tells WLRN's Wilkine Brutus how she proved everyone wrong when she was the first Black female journalist hired at the Miami Herald.

Photos emerged this month of children at a preschool in Little River with their faces painted black, apparently for a Black History Month lesson. An FIU professor who studies the African diaspora says the incident shows how anti-Blackness persists in Latin American contexts.

President Joe Biden says “history matters, and Black history matters,” a forceful declaration that comes after the state of Florida blocked a new advanced course on African American studies from being taught in its high schools.

Joanne Hyppolite made a career out of helping tell the important ways in which Black people influenced all aspects of American culture as a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. She joins host Carlos Frías to talk about why she calls Miami home.

Bessie Coleman Academy in Jacksonville celebrated Black History Month with a relative of the trailblazing pilot.