Rosewood

A Florida official told WLRN scholarships for the descendants of victims of the racist attacks on Rosewood and Ocoee will continue. That's even as state schools are banned from using public funds on programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

A white man was sentenced on six counts of hate crimes for attempting to run over Historian Marvin Dunn, his son and four other Black men who were surveying Dunn’s Rosewood property to build a memorial for the massacre.

A white man in Levy County will be sentenced for criminal actions against a group of Black people who were visiting a site many consider important to Black History in Rosewood, Florida.

One section covering race massacres tells teachers to instruct students about acts of violence "against and by African Americans." That both-sides approach drew outrage.

On this week's Florida Roundup, we discuss Gov. Ron DeSantis' statement that Florida is “where woke goes to die” and what that means for professors — and students — on the receiving end of the governor’s policies.

During the week of Jan. 8, 1923 the town of Rosewood was razed to the ground in an act of racial violence so severe it prompted Florida to pass an act of reparations. Now, descendants of the victims are marking the 100th anniversary of Rosewood massacre with a weeklong commemoration.

The violence in Rosewood mirrored some of America's infamy of racial violence in the years after World War I. In Florida, the Black communities in Ocoee and Rosewood were stained by historic violence in 1920 and 1923, respectively.