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Nova Southeastern University was scheduled to host a screening of the locally-produced documentary "The Poison Garden", which delves in racial injustice in South Florida. But the event was canceled after NSU staff raised concerns the film could be too politically provocative.
Nova Southeastern University was scheduled to host a screening of the locally-produced documentary "The Poison Garden", which delves in racial injustice in South Florida. But the event was canceled after NSU staff raised concerns the film could be too politically provocative.
The story of the mob that hanged an innocent man 90 years ago for something he didn’t do is at risk of being erased under Florida’s ‘anti-woke’ laws, according to the Black man's surviving family members. To stop that from happening, they’ve set up the Rubin Stacey Justice Initiative, a nonprofit that will promote an understanding of Florida’s past, and how it still shapes what goes on today.
White vigilantes killed Rubin Stacy three days after he asked a white woman for water. Eyewitness accounts later revealed deputies organized the lynching.