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  1. There is so much Black history left untaught in our schools | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Two armed men walk away from burning buildings during the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.
  2. Even our best students need to learn more African-American history | Letters
    Jan. 29• Opinion
    Akoye Simms, 7, stands in the back of a 1949 GMC bus parked outside the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16, 2023, in Chicago. On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person in the same model of bus, resulting in the Montgomery bus boycott, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  3. Pinellas schools should put ‘The Bluest Eye’ back on the shelves | Letters
    Jan. 28• Opinion
    Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work that included the novel "The Bluest Eye," which has now been pulled from Pinellas public school classrooms and libraries.
  5. Here’s what Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ meant to me at 18 | Letters
    Jan. 27• Opinion
    Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work that included the novel "The Bluest Eye," which has now been pulled from Pinellas public school classrooms and libraries.
  6. Here’s what it was like to be a gay student in a Florida high school in the ‘70s | Letters
    Jan. 26• Opinion
    Paradegoers carry a huge rainbow flag past city hall on Lakeside Avenue during a Cleveland Pride Parade.
  7. Guess which governor could benefit from this AP course on African American studies? | Letters
    Jan. 25• Opinion
    The new Advanced Placement African American studies course, whose curricula is not yet public, is now being run as a pilot in 60 high schools nationwide. But Florida is banning the course.
  8. My wife never got COVID until she quit wearing a mask | Letters
    Jan. 24• Opinion
    Some travelers wore face masks and some didn't at Tampa International Airport after Tampa Bay airports lifted mask requirements for travelers in April 2022.
  9. Will Floridians’ ‘freedom’ from masks and vaccines put others at risk? | Letters
    Jan. 23• Opinion
    Travelers with and without face coverings are pictured at Tampa International Airport last spring.
  10. One way to pay just value for those displaced from the Historic Gas Plant site | Letters
    Jan. 22• Opinion
    An aerial drone view of Tropicana Field and surrounding area.
  11. My father helped found New College, and I fear what’s going on | Letters
    Jan. 22• Opinion
    New College of Florida is slated to get an academic overhaul under new trustees appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  12. My homeowner’s insurance was $5,600. It skyrocketed to $12,500 | Letters
    Jan. 21• Opinion
    Workers and residents clear debris from a destroyed bar on San Carlos Island in Fort Myers in the wake of Hurricane Ian on Oct. 1, 2022.
  13. A better road, a better life in Pasco County | Letters
    Jan. 20• Opinion
    New interchange at Overpass Road and Interstate 75 opens in Pasco County.
  14. Plenty of blame to go around in the Pasco principal/parent incident | Letters
    Jan. 19• Opinion
    This mural at Pine View Middle School in Pasco County, which has been painted over, stirred concerns among some parents in the community. The photo was shared by several groups on Facebook and other social media sites.
  15. Let’s apply come common sense to recycling | Letters
    Jan. 18• Opinion
    Workers sort out trash from recyclable material at California Waste Solutions in San Jose, Calif. It's expensive to separate what can be recycled from what can't.
  16. The hottest year in Tampa will soon seem not so hot at all | Letters
    Jan. 17• Opinion
    Tampa had its hottest year on record in 2022, according to the National Weather Service. Jeremy Freeman, left, who is the coordinator of Metropolitan Ministries mobile outreach BrigAIDE, gave a bottled water to Jorge Jimenez, 58, right, who is houseless as he and his sister and brother-in-law dealt with the heat in downtown Tampa on July 18, 2022.
  17. A few ideas to improve St. Petersburg | Letters
    Jan. 16• Opinion
    Cars line up early Saturday morning Nov. 11, 2022, in front of an abandoned grocery store in Tangerine Plaza. The food drive has been operating in this location since the pandemic.
  18. Florida tests the joy of reading right out of its students | Letters
    Jan. 15• Opinion
    Sand Pine Elementary School kindergarteners read books from their book boxes while participating in a Read to Self activity in Wesley Chapel.
  19. Maybe Florida needs more Citizens policyholders, not fewer | Letters
    Jan. 14• Opinion
    The state-run Citizens Property Insurance covers property owners who cannot find workable, affordable coverage on the open market.
  20. Our daughter found a home at New College. Leave it be | Letters
    Jan. 13• Opinion
    A view of the visitors center at New College of Florida, a building that overlooks Sarasota Bay.
  21. Florida Democrats need a leader like Nancy Pelosi | Letters
    Jan. 12• Opinion
    Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, talks with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during the eighth vote in the House chamber as the House meets for the third day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, on Jan. 5, 2023.
  22. The US should extradite Bolsonaro from Florida back to Brazil | Letters
    Jan. 11• Opinion
    Supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with riot police as they invade Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia on Jan. 8, 2023.
  23. Well, actually, Ben Sasse is a man with a plan | Letters
    Jan. 10• Opinion
    Ben Sasse is an outgoing U.S. senator and the incoming president of the University of Florida.
  24. Ben Sasse has a point. I only wish he had a solution | Letters
    Jan. 9• Opinion
    Ben Sasse of Nebraska talks during a University of Florida Faculty Senate Open Forum last year.
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