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NAACP Advises Black Student-Athletes to Keep Their Talents Away From Florida Universities
It was a response to the University of Florida (and other colleges) eliminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion program.
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DeSantis Got a Slew of DEI Experts Fired at University of Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got his wish: The University of Florida just fired its entire diversity, equity, and inclusion office.
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#GraduatingWhileBlack: University of Florida Apologizes for Pushing Black Graduates Off the Stage
Imagine waiting anxiously for four years to walk across the stage, give your family members a few seconds to get a good photo, or maybe a dab or two, during graduation, only to be pushed off the stage by an aggressive usher? That’s exactly what happened to black graduates at the University of Florida on…
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Aaron Hernandez Struggled With Being Gay: Report
Aaron Hernandez was gay and struggled with his sexuality, according to people close to him. In an Oxygen documentary, Aaron Hernandez Uncovered, his lawyer George Leontire, who is gay and was a member of Hernandez’s defense team, said that Hernandez spoke at length about his sexuality and was conflicted about it. “This man clearly was…
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#Resist: Music Professor Plays Black National Anthem From Bell Tower Before Richard Spencer’s Fla. Speech
As white nationalist troglodyte Richard Spencer prepared to take the stage for his University of Florida speech Thursday, James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (aka the black national anthem) rang throughout campus. Laura Ellis, a music professor at the university, went up 11 flights of stairs into the school’s carillon tower on Thursday…
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‘Kill Them’: White Nationalists Arrested for Shooting at Protesters After Richard Spencer’s Speech in Fla.
Three white nationalists from Texas who went to Gainesville, Fla., to hear their leader—Richard Spencer—speak at the University of Florida were arrested Thursday after one of them allegedly shot at protesters “with the intent to kill,” authorities say. The Los Angeles Times reports that the shooting was the first serious instance of violence reported in…
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Black Protester Hugs Squirming Nazi, Quips, ‘Why Don’t You Like Me, Dog?’
The black protester who was caught on viral video hugging a squirming and uncomfortable neo-Nazi outside white supremacist dump truck Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday is acknowledging that he could just as easily have hit the guy (an act in which someone else had earlier indulged) but decided…
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Fla. Gov. Rick Scott Declares State of Emergency in Advance of White Nationalist’s Speech This Week
Richard Spencer—a white nationalist who participated in the Charlottesville, Va., rally in August that led to deadly violence—is scheduled to give a speech at the University of Florida on Thursday, and in anticipation of the event, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency. In an executive order written Monday, Scott warned that…
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University of Fla. Rejects Request for ‘Repugnant’ White Nationalist Event
The University of Florida is the latest institution to tell white supremacists to take that shit elsewhere, denying a request by a group led by white nationalist Richard Spencer to rent space on campus for an event in September. According to the Associated Press, university President Kent Fuchs sent out a statement underlining that the…