Florida teachers, parents push back against DeSantis' controversial Black history curriculum change with rallies, tours
After Florida rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many residents raised their voices over how slavery was being downplayed. After Florida's governor and education department rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many students, parents, educators and elected officials raised their voices over how slavery was being presented. The new curriculum included instruction for middle school students that "slaves developed skills which, in some instances, can be applied for their personal benefit." "That's mean," Marvin Dunn, a professor at Florida International University, told ABC News. "That's mean to say that to Black people that there was some advantage, some positive benefit to being enslaved. They weren't even considered to be persons. So how could they have personal benefits?" Marvin Dunn of the Miami Center for Racial Justice leads a rally against Florida...