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White Discomfort on Racial Discourse in America: Examining Florida’s New Individual Freedom bill and its Viewpoint on Critical Race Theory

By: Sara St. Juste “The heartbeat of racism is denial. And too often, the more powerful the racism, the more powerful the denial.” – Ibram X. Kendi On Tuesday, January 15, 2022, Florida’s Senate Education Committee approved the “Individual Freedom” bill prohibiting private businesses and public schools from inflicting “discomfort” on White Americans during discussions about […]

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Florida’s Callous Handling of Life and Death

By: Abigail Young One might expect that the state with the most death row exonerations[1] would be embarrassed to have facilitated such grave injustices. Not the Florida Supreme Court.  In 2020, the newly comprised Florida Supreme Court held in State v. Poole that a death sentence no longer requires a unanimous jury recommendation, instead the jury only must […]

The Legal Fight Against Morphed Child Pornography

By: Katharine Rodriguez There is no other group of people in the world that deserve more representation than those who are unable to represent themselves: children. Prior to the 1970’s there were no laws or legislation criminalizing child pornography.[1]Considering that the media and film industries did not take off until the mid 1930’s, this was […]

Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentencing Scheme and Its Disproportionate Application to Black Youth

By: Raegan Burke Florida remains one of the twenty-five states that allows for juveniles to be sentenced to life without parole if they are convicted of a homicide.[1] Juvenile life without parole is not unconstitutional, and despite repeated challenges to the sentence, the Supreme Court has upheld its constitutionality, while limiting application of the sentence.[2] In 2005, […]