To DeSantis, Florida is ‘where woke goes to die.’ Some South Florida leaders disagree

Joyce Price remembers a different Miami, one where the only downtown bathroom she and other people of color could use was in the basement of the courthouse, and most stores wouldn’t allow people of color to try on shoes or clothes without covering their skin with bags. Affectionately known to South Miami residents as an “icon” and “mother” of the community, Price even had to leave Florida in the 1950s to attend nursing school because many schools wouldn’t accept Black students — and those that did were phasing out. Price was one of dozens who on Thursday attended a stop of the Stay Woke Florid…

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