“The governor and the Republicans in the state of Florida have awakened a sleeping giant with Black people in the state,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat whose district straddles the Broward/Miami-Dade county line. “For the past two years, Black people in the state of Florida have been walked on,” Jones said, arguing DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature have “used Blacks and marginalized people as their political football.”. . .MORE
ORLANDO SENTINEL - 05/17/22