Commentary

Banning abortion after 15 weeks, GOP lawmakers show the bill is about controlling women. They won’t stop there.

ap dancer-choreographer-producer-teacher Maurice Hines has been advocating for Black lives and gay rights long before there were hashtags. A new documentary looks back at this iconic entertainer.

The Mountaintop, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall, shows us the flesh-and-blood man behind the larger-than-life civil rights hero

One man grabbed the spotlight at a fall school board meeting. Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Jenkins caved. Now LGBTQ and certain BIPOC books can’t be found in school libraries, and bills to make that permanent are under consideration in the Florida Legislature.

With inflation, OCPS’ proposed teacher contract doesn’t even cover the costs for teachers to live in our communities.

After the Orlando Sentinel’s splashy Sunday spread on Moms For Liberty, SPEAKUp’s co-founder had to speak out against censorship.

Why we have to mark painful anniversaries like the Ocoee Massacre and Kristallnacht. Yes, every year.

A former New York City police officer now living in Winter Garden, Marvin Vasquez talks about being at the World Trade Center when the planes hit, the tough decision he had to make, and how a moment of comfort became an iconic photograph.

It opens the door to blowing off all kinds of things we should do.

The governor believes that teaching history as anything other than the “universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence” will cause students to hate and destroy our country. That’s the same reasoning slavers used to forbid teaching enslaved people to read and write out of fear of rebellion.