Black fraternity moves Florida event over DeSantis’s ‘assault’ on minorities

Alpha Phi Alpha joins a number of companies and organizations boycotting state in protest of governor’s extremist positions

A historic Black fraternity is pulling its 2025 conference from Florida to protest the rightwing governor Ron DeSantis’s “continued assault” on minority communities, which includes new state teaching standards that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved people.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated said the decision to move its event from Orlando, joining a growing number of companies and organizations boycotting the state, was to highlight DeSantis’s “harmful, racist and insensitive policies against the Black community”.