{"id":152529,"date":"2026-02-12T04:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152529\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:29:13","slug":"the-florida-museum-of-black-history-takes-next-step-to-possible-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152529\/","title":{"rendered":"The Florida Museum of Black History takes next step to possible opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida is one step closer to opening its first black history museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Senate approved a bill Wednesday to create the museum\u2019s directors and board members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bill says that these members would not hold any state or elective office while on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The museum was voted on in 2023 by the state legislature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">Florida Politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Darryl Ervin Rouson, D-St Petersburg, commented on the legacy that the museum will cement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt will ensure that future generations do not inherit fragments of history, but a full inheritance of history, of the truth,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Florida Museum of Black History will be built in St. John\u2019s County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Specifically, on the former campus of Florida Memorial University in St. Augustine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida is one step closer to opening its first black history museum.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[48241,73611,73612,22315,4215,2455,4214,2663,23890,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-152529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-black-history-month","tag-darrly-robinson","tag-florida-memorial","tag-florida-museum-of-black-history","tag-florida-senate","tag-museum","tag-senate","tag-st-augustine","tag-st-johns","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}