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Becky Sullivan

NAACP urges Black athletes to avoid Florida public universities over anti-DEI policies

A University of Florida football game last fall. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)

Black college athletes should rethink any decision to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, the NAACP advised in an extraordinary letter issued in response to efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis to weaken diversity, equity and inclusion efforts statewide.

The letter, authored by the NAACP's top two officials and addressed to Charlie Baker, the head of the NCAA, comes on the heels of last week's announcement by the University of Florida that it would eliminate the school's diversity, equity and inclusion staff in order to come into compliance with an anti-DEI law signed last year by DeSantis.

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