NewsOne Featured Video Ruby Bridges is escorted by U.S. Federal Marshals into William Frantz elementary school during the second week of the court-ordered integration, New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 28, 1960. | Source: Underwood Archives / Getty It should be abundantly clear by now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his anti-woke lynch mob (aka […]
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U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, in this November 1960, file photo.Photo: Uncredited (AP) Even though the Disney film “Ruby Bridges” has been shown during Black History Month in Florida’s Pinellas County for years, it was recently pulled because a parent was worried that it would […]
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Indeed, the diversity in the movement can be seen in the nature of labor action these past few months. This week, workers at over 100 Starbucks locations nationwide went on strike to protest the company’s alleged union-busting schemes. Another union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school staff workers—including custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, special education assistants, […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Demonstrators protest Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ plan to eliminate Advanced Placement courses on African American studies in high schools as they stand outside the Florida State Capitol on February 15, 2023, in Tallahassee, Florida. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Apparently, Florida has finally become so racist that the state’s NAACP […]
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Members of the Florida Legislature moved this week to shield Gov. Ron DeSantis’s travel records from the public, proposing to change the state’s public information laws just as the governor ramps up what is expected to be a 2024 presidential campaign. The bill, which was advanced by state senators in both parties, includes a sweeping […]
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The threat of litigation in countries without the United States’ high level of press protection can have a subtle but profound chilling effect on journalism and accountability. Australian legal commentators, for example, noted that the #MeToo movement faltered in that country after figures like actor Geoffrey Rush began suing the women who accused them of […]
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None of that is a problem for VanWinkle. “How does this even remotely fit into our constitutional obligation to promote a high degree of intelligence, patriotism, morality, and integrity for our students in the education system?” she asked earlier in the meeting. Since entering office last year, VanWinkle has made a habit of reading Bible […]
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Crowder continued with the baton, assuring listeners that he did not think Trump would have wanted violence. “He didn’t word it, maybe, prudently,” Crowder suggested, describing how Trump could have simply said, “‘Protest, make your voices heard peacefully,’ which he did, by the way, on January 6.” In the weeks leading up to, and on […]
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Crowder continued with the baton, assuring listeners that he did not think Trump would have wanted violence. “He didn’t word it, maybe, prudently,” Crowder suggested, describing how Trump could have simply said, “‘Protest, make your voices heard peacefully,’ which he did, by the way, on January 6.” In the weeks leading up to, and on […]
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The Tribune notes that such hesitation in the face of an AR-15 had led police in other shootings—including at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando—to respond less quickly. Republicans, both in Texas and nationally, have opposed banning or further regulating weapons like the AR-15—even now as police […]
Read MoreFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump Oct. 23, 2020, in The Villages, Fla.(AP Photo/John Raoux, File) A nonprofit-run theater in Orlando is reportedly at risk of losing its liquor license, the latest attack in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war on drag shows, which he’s called “sexualized” entertainment. And […]
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Former President Donald J. Trump’s political operation is trying to use the news of his expected indictment by a Manhattan grand jury to turn the strident base of the Republican Party against his expected rival for the 2024 presidential nomination, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Immediately after the former president predicted on Saturday that his […]
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Rather than question the former president’s actions on Covid, DeSantis goes after Anthony Fauci, “one of the most destructive bureaucrats in American history,” an official whose “intellectual bankruptcy and brazen partisanship” turned major U.S. cities into hollowed-out “Faucivilles.” Fauci is the supervillain of DeSantis’s book, the destroyer of jobs and freedoms, the architect of a […]
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“If it wasn’t for that incident, we would not be on the board,” Mr. Rohe said. He said the hospital had dismissed concerns about its Covid protocols from ordinary taxpayers who did not feel like Sarasota Memorial, a 901-bed facility, was catering to their needs. “Nobody wants to talk about that,” Mr. Rohe said. “So […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a rally at the OCC Road House and Museum in Pinellas Park, Fla. on March 8, 2023. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty As it now stands, all bets are that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will run for president in 2024. And DeSantis’ antics in Florida […]
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And money talks. Hoeven has seemingly expressed little public concern about the rail industry since the East Palestine derailment. In 2021, however, he, Cramer, and Armstrong did send a letter to the Surface Transportation Board advocating for the Canadian Pacific, or CP, and Kansas City Southern, or KCS, merger. As The American Prospect reports, Hoeven […]
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And money talks. Hoeven has seemingly expressed little public concern about the rail industry since the East Palestine derailment. In 2021, however, he, Cramer, and Armstrong did send a letter to the Surface Transportation Board advocating for the Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) merger. As The American Prospect reports, Hoeven was rewarded […]
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As Ron DeSantis continues to toy with a possible presidential run, the Florida governor has opened himself up to increased scrutiny as political pundits and insiders weigh his chances in the Republican primary against Donald Trump. In a lengthy new report on his presidential prospects, it appears that DeSantis has several issues to overcome. Notably, […]
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Education secretary stresses opposition to bans on books, topics after DeSantis moves | The Hill Skip to content Getty/Associated Press-Lynne Sladky Education Secretary Miguel Cardona reiterated the Biden administration’s opposition to book bans in a guest op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times amid the controversy on the topic spurred by restrictions enacted under Florida Gov. […]
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The nitty-gritty process of reviewing and approving school textbooks has typically been an administrative affair, drawing the attention of education experts, publishing executives and state bureaucrats. But in Florida, textbooks have become hot politics, part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign against what he describes as “woke indoctrination” in public schools, particularly when it comes to […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Omega Psi Phi Fraternity performs at a step show on November 7, 2015, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Source: Bobby Metelus / Getty At some point, white conservatives need to admit that their war against diversity, equity and inclusion is bigoted as hell. Perhaps they just need to say out loud to […]
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Another source of friction is the laws red states are passing to prevent health insurance companies from covering gender-affirming care anywhere in the U.S. One strategy used by states like Florida is to put an excessive statute of limitations and liability on doctors and health care providers who provide gender-affirming care or coverage. Their goal […]
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“Biden approved Willow knowing full well that it’ll cause massive and irreversible destruction, which is appalling,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “People and wildlife will suffer, and extracting and burning more fossil fuel will warm the climate even faster. Biden has no excuse for letting this project go […]
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MIAMI — So much for all the efforts to slow the proliferation of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades over the last two decades, including with paid contractors, trained volunteers and an annual hunt that has drawn participants from as far as Latvia: The giant snakes have been making their way north, reaching West Palm […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson looks on at a street sign named after her during a street renaming ceremony in Miami-Dade County on March 6, 2023, in Cutler Bay, Florida. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s resilience and tenacity have led her to […]
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A memo that Ms. Lopez sent out days later mirrored that plan, saying, “The legislature makes the law and we, as prosecutors, enforce it.” (She testified that she did not recall consulting with anyone other than her chief of staff.) Two aides to the governor were dispatched to the state attorney’s office in Hillsborough to […]
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Well, it’s certainly hard to avoid seeing Ron DeSantis these days. He’s all over the place, promoting his new book. Have you been paying attention? Here’s a pop quiz. DeSantis’s tome is called: A. “The Courage to Be Free” B. “From the Panhandle to Pensacola” C. “Available to Speak Is My Middle Name” Yeah, yeah. […]
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The boy chose the river. The river won. As Dunn told the story of Howard — whom he has described as Florida’s Emmett Till — Marcus’s face rippled as he repeatedly clenched his jaw and furrowed his brow. Howard was then the same age as Marcus is now: 15. As he told me: “That could […]
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One exception is Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who addressed the complexity of the debate in an email: Higher ed and K-12 are different. States are on much firmer ground in seeking to establish or constrain what gets taught in K-12 education, where the concept of academic freedom simply doesn’t […]
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