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Gloria Oladipo in New York and Maya Yang

Kamala Harris condemns Florida over curriculum claim of slavery ‘benefit’

Kamala Harris in Washington on Wednesday. On Friday she said: ‘They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not have it. We will not let it happen.’
Kamala Harris in Washington on Wednesday. On Friday she said: ‘They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not have it. We will not let it happen.’ Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty

Kamala Harris went to Florida on Friday to address the state board of education’s controversial new standards for Black history, which include the contention that some Black people benefited from being enslaved.

In an impassioned afternoon speech, the vice-president predicted the standards would rob children of knowing true US history that the rest of the world has been taught.

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