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Black Lawmakers Push Federal Government To Investigate Florida After Changing Its African American History Curriculum
Story by Rayna Reid Rayford • Yesterday 3:38 PM
 
 Last week, Florida’s recent changes to their African American history curriculum made headlines and have been lambasted by critics. Now, Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members are pressing “the White House, Justice Department and the Department of Education to adopt an ‘aggressive legal strategy’ to scrutinize” the curriculum.

 The CBC wants the federal government to analyze and examine whether school districts in Florida “are violating federal discrimination law – from banning books covering racial themes," which added language around teaching students how slavery had some benefits for enslaved Black people.