• A Florida school board is halting the use of a fictional book about a Black boy who is killed by a white officer after a police union complained to the school district that it is propaganda.
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• The Orange County Board of County Commissioners has already approved an additional more than $100,000 dollar grant for the partnership. A total of $217,000 dollars will go toward this project.
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• Stetson University and the Volusia Remembers Coalition is holding a soil collection ceremony next week to honor county resident and lynching victim Lee Snell.
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• Burns says his district has been hit hard by COVID-19, as many people in the community are essential workers who cannot work virtually.
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• The first-term Atlanta mayor has spoken out against the state of Georgia’s Republican-led pandemic response and spoken forcefully to protesters in her city.
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• The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid calls for systemic reform. In this film, five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
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• For many African Americans, patriotism is complicated because the promises of America aren’t fulfilled equally. The Fourth of July brings a challenge: reconciling national pride with systemic racism.
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