TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two days before the end of Black History Month, the Florida Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force met in Tallahassee. AAHTF members told 10 Investigates ...
EATONVILLE, Fla. — Concerns are growing that a member of the task force designated to recommend a site for Florida’s Black History Museum deliberately threw the vote, resulting in St. Augustine’s ...
Nearly three decades ago, Florida passed a landmark measure requiring that Black history be taught in its public schools. “Knowledge is the antidote to the poison of prejudice,” Gov. Lawton Chiles (D) ...
A state task force this week chose St. Johns County, not Eatonville in Orange County, as the location for a proposed Florida Museum of Black History. The Florida Museum of Black History Task Force ...
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – The future home of Florida’s first state-funded Black History museum is once again up for debate, even though a task force that met for nearly a year recommended St. Augustine ...
The group has recommended Saint Johns County for the site of the Florida Museum of Black History. It was a decision that shocked leaders in Eatonville, who were fighting for the museum to be built ...
Distinguished historian Gary Mormino had been invited to give a talk at a workshop for Florida teachers this summer about the African American experience during World War II. But a week before the ...
At a meeting in Tallahassee on April 19, The Florida Museum of Black History Task Force placed West Augustine’s former Florida Memorial University (FMU,) in the No. 1 spot — again — for the location ...