Florida's mandated instruction that people benefited from skills gained in slavery has drawn national attention.
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“Your decision to rewrite history to ingrain white supremacy into the minds of children is a colossal step backward and an insult to Black people, descendants of slaves, and the intellect of the American people,” three Florida Democrats — Reps. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, and Frederica Wilson — and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Steven Horsford to the state’s Department of Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. and Board of Education Chairman Ben Gibson.
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