{"id":1985226,"date":"2023-07-28T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-fraternity-moves-convention-slated-for-florida-over-its-education-policies\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:17:46","slug":"black-fraternity-moves-convention-slated-for-florida-over-its-education-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-fraternity-moves-convention-slated-for-florida-over-its-education-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Black fraternity changes convention location due to Florida&#8217;s education policies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-fraternity-moves-convention-slated-for-florida-over-its-education-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>America&#8217;s \u2064Oldest Intercollegiate Black Fraternity Takes a Stand Against Racist\u2063 Policies<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200b 97th \u200bnational convention of Alpha Phi Alpha, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-fraternity-moves-convention-slated-for-florida-over-its-education-policies\/\" title=\"Black fraternity changes convention location due to Florida's education policies.\">oldest\u200c intercollegiate \u200dblack fraternity<\/a> in America, was \u2063set to take place in Orlando, Florida in\u200b 2025. However, due to what the fraternity describes as &#8220;harmful, racist, \u200cand insensitive policies against the Black community&#8221; from the office of Gov. \u200bRon DeSantis (R-FL), the convention will now be hosted in Dallas.<\/p>\n<h3>Standing Up for Respect \u2062and\u200d Equality<\/h3>\n<p>Alpha Phi \u200cAlpha General President Willis L. Lonzer III emphasized the importance \u2064of respect and equality in their \u200bdecision. &#8220;Our \u200bintent is to ensure that, where we spend our dollars, we are going\u200b to be respected,&#8221; Lonzer stated. &#8220;And people that \u2064look like us, \u2062who are \u200bBlack people, Brown people, people \u200dof different\u200b cultures and ethnicities, need to be respected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lonzer further highlighted the fraternity&#8217;s commitment to social justice, advocacy, \u200cand leadership for the Black community.\u2062 &#8220;In this environment of manufactured\u200c division and\u200d attacks on the\u200c Black community, \u2064Alpha Phi Alpha refuses to direct a projected $4.6 million convention economic impact to a place hostile to the communities we serve,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<h3>A History of \u200cControversial Policies<\/h3>\n<p>The decision to relocate the convention comes in response to the Florida\u200d Board of\u2062 Education&#8217;s\u2062 approval of a new K-12 curriculum for African American history, which critics argue misrepresents the history \u200cof \u200bslavery. Additionally,\u200c Gov. DeSantis rejected the College Board&#8217;s Advanced Placement\u2064 course on the\u2063 same\u2062 topic.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this decision, Alpha \u2063Phi Alpha will continue to support its 720 college and \u200balumni chapters in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the\u2064 NAACP has issued a travel \u200dwarning \u200cfor Florida, even though\u200c the chairman of \u200dits board of directors, Leon W. Russell,\u2062 resides in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Florida currently holds\u2064 the highest number \u2064of\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/insurance-companies-reaping-benefits-from-protests-get-in-line-with-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"Insurance Companies, Reaping Benefits from Protests, Get in Line with Black Lives Matter\">black-owned businesses<\/a> in the country,\u200d according to\u200c the Pew \u2064Research \u2064Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The\u200c Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha Phi Alpha, America&#8217;s oldest intercollegiate black fraternity, has decided to relocate its 97th national convention from Orlando, Florida to Dallas in 2025. The fraternity claims that Orlando&#8217;s &#8220;harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against the Black community&#8221; led to this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}