Florida

Appeals Court: Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ violates U.S. Constitution

March 11, 2024 By Mark Gruenberg

By barring speech, DeSantis’s law penalizes certain viewpoints—the greatest First Amendment sin.

The murder of Trayvon Martin and the birth of a movement

February 27, 2024 By Special to People’s World

From the archives: How the killing of a Black youth in Florida in 2012 helped spark the Black Lives Matter revolution.

“We’re going to follow science”: University of Florida Student Senate adopts Green New Deal

February 22, 2024 By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

“Science has said for decades that climate change is human caused. This is not even a debate any more."

Florida’s Coral Reef still stands a chance at survival

October 30, 2023 By Andrew Wright

Many feared this summer’s record-shattering water temperatures had killed the Reef once and for all.

Jacksonville mourns victims of white supremacist gunman, boos racist Republican Ron DeSantis

August 28, 2023 By Aaron Morrison And Russ Bynum

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—who’s running for the GOP nomination, who has loosened gun laws in Florida, and who has antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness”—was loudly booed as he addressed a vigil.