Teachers, students and labor leaders marched to a Miami school district headquarters to protest Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history.
Hundreds crowded into a South Florida church for the forum, but Manny Diaz, the person responsible for overseeing the new standards, wasn’t in attendance.“These new state standards that DeSantis has come up with will not be tolerated in our schools. We will not let our children be taught that slaves benefited from their slavery. That’s a lie,” said march organizer Marvin Dunn, a professor emeritus of psychology at Florida International University.
About 50 protesters who started the 1-mile trek from Booker T. Washington Senior High School in Miami’s historically Black Overtown neighborhood chanted, “What do we want? Truth. When do we want it? Now. What if we don’t get it? Shut it down!” They were greeted by another 50 protesters at the school board building, where speakers addressed the crowd. Among them was Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson, who was propelled into the national spotlight after being expelled from the Republican-dominated legislative body for leading a gun control protest on the House floor.
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