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Ron DeSantisRacist Culture War Benches Baseball Great 

Roberto Clemente Biography

February 11, 2023

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"One of the most inspiring baseball stories ever told might not be suitable for Florida public school libraries under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis.


The book, “Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates,” is among the more than 1 million titles that “have been covered or stored and paused for student use” in Florida, NBC News reported. The freeze follows the Florida “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” that DeSantis signed in 2022.


The book about Clemente’s life by Jonah Winter and Raul Colon is not alone. Other books about Latino figures, such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the late Afro-Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz, have the same frozen status, NBC reported."


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