Black History

A white man was sentenced on six counts of hate crimes for attempting to run over Historian Marvin Dunn, his son and four other Black men who were surveying Dunn’s Rosewood property to build a memorial for the massacre.

A white man in Levy County will be sentenced for criminal actions against a group of Black people who were visiting a site many consider important to Black History in Rosewood, Florida.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we discuss how, for the first time, Medicare will negotiate the prices of 10 common medicines. Plus, we look at the latest in education news and hear about how a Florida woman and her granddaughter made history – six decades apart.

Private schools don't have to follow new laws that dictate how history can be taught, so some schools are pushing back and offering educational experiences rich in civil rights history.

As the state cracks down on how schools teach Black history and race, the African American Research Library & Cultural Center plans to host Black history classes.

A year-and-a-half ago, Renee O'Connor was a finalist to be Miami-Dade County's teacher of the year. Now, she's on leave from her job as an African American history teacher.

The ASALH conference runs from Sept 20-24 with a focus on Black resistance and the teaching of Black history.

One section covering race massacres tells teachers to instruct students about acts of violence "against and by African Americans." That both-sides approach drew outrage.

Commissioner Manny Diaz, the man responsible for overseeing the standards, had previously RSVPed but then didn't show up.

Hundreds of faith leaders of the Florida General Baptist Convention decried the state’s new African American History standards at a conference in Orlando on Wednesday.

In Orlando on Tuesday, she again criticized the state's new education standards that in part, require teachers to instruct middle school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

Rep. Dianne Hart, D-Tampa, released a statement Friday that accompanied a letter urging DeSantis and state Education Commissioner Manny Diaz to revise the standards.