Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Florida’s new Black history standards at an event in Jacksonville on Friday, calling them part of “a national agenda … to replace history with lies.” Harris did not mention Gov. Ron DeSantis by name but blasted “extreme so-called leaders” who she said wanted to push false history and propaganda in schools. “Middle school students in Florida [may] be told that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” Harris said.

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