Florida teachers, parents push back vs. DeSantis' Black history curriculum changes

Marvin Dunn of the Miami Center for Racial Justice leads a rally against Florida's new history curriculum.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.

Dunn and other educators have banded together with parents and students and formed a non-profit coalition, the Miami Center for Racial Justice, to protest Florida's new curriculum and raise awareness for the Black history that they say is being erased from classrooms. "People need to walk in the places where these things happened so that they become meaningful to them, so that you carry the experience beyond just the academic histories, not just facts," Dunn said. "If you only teach history as facts, you're really teaching a catalog, not really emotion."

The governor further defended the curriculum changes in an interview with Fox News in August contending the curriculum's wording lets teachers show "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

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