Tallahassee Commissioner Curtis Richardson decried DeSantis' “culture war against African Americans.” Richardson accused him of voter suppression and blasted school voucher extensions that he said would destroy public education.
“We’re here today to tell the governor we’re not going to stand by and just let these things happen to African Americans in our state,” Richardson said.Holmes said the group aims to create a statewide movement, one he hoped would spark positive conversations about the value of “learning about all people’s history, and not at the expense of erasing and eliminating Black studies.
about the state's rejection for the first time. He said the state is blocking the course because it included the study of “queer theory” and political movements that advocated for “abolishing prisons.”
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