Florida

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  12/15/2021
  

  DeSantis Enlists Parent Vigilantes in Escalation of CRT Culture War

  "As for Florida teachers, why would any of them invite a lawsuit from the local MAGA commissar by suggesting their nation was anything other than the divinely blessed paradise of freedom and opportunity?"

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  11/30/2021
  

  A UF Professor Used "Critical" and "Race" in a Sentence. Trouble Ensued

  Education Professor Chris Busey contends that he has been barred from stating his academic specialization, which is approved by his college, in his faculty profile. Is a political attack on critical race theory responsible? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/31/2021
  

  Serwer: Florida Silencing Academic Critics of Disenfranchisement Echoes End of Reconstruction

  Free speech debates miss a key point: some participants don't want to protect the right to speak as much as the right of the state to use its power to end political arguments. The role of Black Floridians as citizens was once such an argument, and disenfranchisement ended it. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/1/2021
  

  The Attack on University of Florida Professors is Totalitarian

  by Silke-Maria Weineck

  Even beyond academic freedom, events in Florida signal the effort to tie the interests of the state's universities to the agenda of the state's ruling party. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/16/2021
  

  Politicians, not Migrants, are Fueling the Pandemic's Resurgence

  by Randa Tawil

  At the height of colonialism, European governments rejected calls for quarantine to keep global commerce humming, and blamed supposedly unsanitary local populations for the inevitable spread of cholera. Governors in some US states are repeating this mistake today. 

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  9/1/2021
  

  The Last House in Historic Rosewood, Florida May Become a Museum

  “It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  6/30/2021
  

  Will Bunch: Campus ‘Red Scare’ takes Florida back to the ’50s

  Columnist Will Bunch argues that the nationwide attack on "Critical Race Theory" echoes the anticommunist politics Hofstadter described in "The Paranoid Style," which he discusses with education professor Robert Dahlgren.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6/14/2021
  

  Is This Florida Island Home to a Long-Lost Native American Settlement?

  The dig is part of the UNF Archaeology Lab’s ongoing Mocama Archaeological Project, which seeks to shed light on the Indigenous people who lived along northern Florida’s coast prior to Europeans’ arrival in the region in 1562.

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• SOURCE: News 4 Jacksonville
  3/18/2021
  

  DeSantis Lashes out at ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Push to Overhaul Florida’s Civics Curriculum

  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the latest official to attack "Critical Race Theory" based on an understanding that the ideas are corrupting civics education by overstating the extent of racism in the US. 

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• 2/28/2021
  

  Twenty Years Ago, Rioters Tried to Stop a Presidential Vote Count – and Succeeded

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  On November 22, 2000 a mob succeeded in deciding a presidential election. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/5/2021
  

  The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is that a Problem?

  by Jamie L.H. Goodall

    "Perhaps time has dulled us to the atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws. Or perhaps it’s the fact that if pirates of the Golden Age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them."

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• SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
  2/3/2021
  

  Group Asks Florida Police Department to Remove Confederate Flag from Badges

  Pensacola's Citizens Police Advisory Board recommended that the badge design be changed to remove the image of the flag of the Confederate States of America.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/14/2020
  

  Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

  Zora Neale Hurston was the most famous resident of Eatonville, Florida, but Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins spent decades organizing and building the town, then fighting to preserve the historical legacy of African American towns from the post-Reconstruction era. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/6/2020
  

  The Cuban Revolution Explains Why Younger Cuban Americans Supported Trump

  by William Kelly

  The collapse of revolutionary ideology and wrenching economic transition in Cuba has influenced younger Cuban emigres to embrace individualistic and materialistic politics that align with Republican candidates and Donald Trump.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/3/2020
  

  Ted Olson Argued Bush v. Gore. Before Another Possibly Contested Election, Here Are 7 of His Winning Tactics

  by Barbara Perry

  Ted Olson served as counsel to George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount. He offers his advice to any election lawyers who may end up in the Supreme Court this year. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  What Modern Voter Suppression Looks Like In Florida

  by Julio Capó Jr. and Melba V. Pearson

  "The result of legal maneuvering in Florida is a 21st-century version of Jim Crow, now matured into James Crow Esq. The intent — to restrict minority community access to the ballot box — is the same, but the methods of voter suppression have become more sophisticated."

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• SOURCE: Lakeland (FL) Ledger
  9/20/2020
  

  Black and White Polk Pastors Overcome Racism in Show of Forgiveness and Grace

  Richard Harris and Kenneth Stephens committed to Christian demands for forgiveness and reconciliation, and have shared their personal stories in an effort to heal racial divisions. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  9/9/2020
  

  Black Scuba Divers Document Slave Shipwrecks Forgotten For Generations

  Columbia University professor Christopher Brown says the number of slave shipwrecks that researchers have been able to confirm are the absolute minimum, and that the true number of shipwrecked slave ships are likely much higher. The work of a Florida diving group hopes to change that. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2020
  

  ‘Ax Handle Saturday’: The Klan’s Vicious Attack On Black Protesters In Florida 60 Years Ago

  Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/17/2020
  

  The Bush-Gore Recount Is an Omen for 2020

  An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history.