Testimony: N. FL Blacks lost attention from Congress after DeSantis destroyed district
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 28, 2023
When he was a congressman representing portions of Tallahassee, Al Lawson steered through Congress a measure renaming the city’s main post office after Edwina Stephens, the “mother of the Southside,” the predominantly Black area where the building is located.
By the time the naming ceremony transpired this June 10, Lawson, a Black Democrat, had lost his re-election in a rejiggered congressional district now represented by Neal Dunn, a white man from Panama City. That was in last year’s midterm elections.
“He was not familiar at all with the important work of Ms . . .
