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A $20 million program will give financial restitution to students who endured abuse and neglect at the hands of the state.
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The Florida Museum of Black History Task Force voted 5-4 to ratify its rankings and select an undeveloped site near St. Augustine belonging to Florida Memorial University.
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In recent years, conservative lawmakers have sought to limit how public schools teach race and history. To combat those efforts, community groups are stepping in to fill the void.
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In segregation days, the Ace Theater in Coconut Grove was the black community’s showplace for movies and entertainment events. The historic venue served that role from the 1930s into the 1950s and until its closure.
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Miami-Dade County school officials are facing backlash over its so-called permission slip policy. But teaching African American history is required by state statute and Miami-Dade schools comply with that throughout the year, the district’s chief academic officer said.
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Senate Bill 1312 would create Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, a legal holiday that would be celebrated the fourth Thursday in March every year in Florida. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military pilots in our nation’s armed forces.
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The abhorrent state of the Westview Community Cemetery is at the center of a legal battle over who is in charge of its operation, upkeep and land — some of which was contentiously sold to a developer who planned an industrial office park.
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Frank Wooden comes to work everyday to restore a historical, Black cemetery in Miami's Brownsville neighborhood. “When I’m coming here, I’m coming home again,” he says. This story comes from NPR's Next Generation Radio's Florida newsroom.
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A new historic marker in Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood details the 1925 lynching of Black resident Arthur Henry. The details of his murder came to light only a few years ago. It's part of an effort to shed light on the region's racially charged past.
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The famous jazz venue was set to re-open last winter after years of planning delays and a nearly $20 million tax-funded renovation.
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Veterans Day is a big deal at Frank C. Martin International K-8 Center in Richmond Heights in southwest Miami-Dade. The neighborhood was founded as a home for Black veterans returning from World War II. Every year, students at the school celebrate local service members.
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Emmanuel George is an archivist and community historian who created the Black Broward Instagram page to share pieces of Broward’s Black history. It’s a peek into all the different kinds of work he’s doing to highlight Broward’s Black history.