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The bill was filed in response to a controversial part of African-American history standards approved by the State Board of Education in July.
Ahmed Baba On Trump – Four Years, Day By Day!
“Trump’s first major typo after winning the election was spelling Unprecedented incorrectly. He infamously tweeted “Unpresidented.” This typo is emblematic of his administration: An impulsive, unprepared, frantically thrown together group of characters with virtually no...
Amy Gajda Seek And Hide: The Tangled History Of The Right To Privacy Amy Gajda, a former journalist, and one of the country’s top experts on privacy and the media shares information about her own...
A judge weighs restrictions Florida has placed on higher education courses
A new Florida law prohibits instruction on certain topics in “general education core courses” at state colleges and universities.
Florida Department of Education will review Asian-American and Pacific-Islander history standards
The Florida Department of Education is preparing to review academic standards related to Asian-American and Pacific-Islander history.
The Opinion Of Dr. Binoy Kampmark. The Real Tony Montana(s)?
The learned Dr. Binoy Kampmark, senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia is a frequent and welcome contributor to Life Elsewhere. His regular commentaries for CounterPunch are often the raison d’être to invite the...
Augustine Sedgewick – Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug What do you know about coffee? A wonderful new book will change how you look at – or taste coffee...
The Long-Building War On Democracy
David Neiwert The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault On American Democracy From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at...
A Unique History Of The West. A Love Letter To A Transgender Child.
Naoise Mac Sweeney – The West: A New History In Fourteen Lives Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how Western Civilization the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient...
Mario Núñez fights to maintain Tampa’s identity
Mario Núñez, creator and host of The Tampa Natives show on the Tampa Bay Arts and Education network, talks with WaveMakers about his nostalgic longing for the Tampa he grew up in.
Two Minutes That Changed History
A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of...
New book about The Beatles in Florida in 1964 — plus the Penny Lane museum in Dunedin
The Beatles came to Florida 3vtimes in 1964. WMNF interviews the author of a new book chronicling their musical & social importance.
