Florida Requires Teaching Black History. Some Don't Trust Schools to Do It Justice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "It feels like I'm really learning my culture.
59% : They talk about South Florida's Caribbean roots, the state's dark history of lynchings, how segregation still shapes the landscape and how grassroots activists mobilized the Civil Rights Movement to upend generations of oppression.
55% : Many are supported by Black churches, which for generations have helped forge the cultural and political identity of their parishioners.
45% : Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many families no longer trust the state's education system to adequately address the subject.
44% : Now, she is back in the classroom, but she also has been helping community groups develop their own Black history programs outside of the public school system.
36% : In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won't provide.

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