{"id":153266,"date":"2026-02-12T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:04:09","slug":"universitys-black-history-month-censorship-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153266\/","title":{"rendered":"University&#8217;s Black History Month Censorship Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Initially, the school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/06\/black-banned-from-flyers-for-famu-college-of-law-black-history-month-event-student-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued a statement<\/a> indicating that the faculty member&#8217;s guidance complied with state law.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cFlorida A&amp;M University has consistently been in full compliance with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Senate Bill 266<\/a>\u00a0and Board of Governors\u2019 Regulation 9.016. We support and have implemented the policy direction established by the Governor, the Legislature, and the Board of Governors as it relates to DEI, and consistent with related federal court rulings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initially, the school issued a statement indicating that the faculty member&#8217;s guidance complied with state law. The statement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[73876,232,234,233,27208],"class_list":{"0":"post-153266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-black-content","9":"tag-tallahassee","10":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","11":"tag-tallahassee-news","12":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153266","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=153266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}