The police-custody death of a Black man, George Floyd, in May led to a national reckoning around race, including at the University of Florida, which decided to ban the "Gator Bait," a traditional ...

But long before those two words were yelled at UF sporting events, the words “gator bait” referred to a reprehensible practice during the late 1800s and early 1900s involving black babies and ...

The University of Florida's president announced Thursday that the school is discontinuing the use of its "Gator Bait" cheer and band ... And I'm black." The removal of the cheer was just one ...

The University of Florida will no longer use the “Gator Bait” cheer at sporting ... The representation of black children as “alligator bait” was perpetuated in motion pictures and popular ...

The phrase "gator bait" is potentially linked to historical stories about black children being used as bait for alligator hunters, written about in scores of turn-of-the-century publications ...

The University of Florida’s “Gator Bait” cheer ... babies being used as alligator bait. Fuchs said that “the 2020-21 academic year will focus on the Black experience, racism and inequity.” ...

Fuchs announced that Florida’s band would no longer play the traditional musical cue that leads to Florida fans yelling “Gator Bait ... hunters using black babies as bait to lure ...

Deemed “horrific historic racist imagery,” the term “Gator Bait” will no longer be used ... York Zoological Gardens’ zookeeper sent two black children into an enclosure that housed ...

[Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun] The University of Florida will no longer use the “Gator Bait” cheer ... The representation of black children as “alligator bait” was perpetuated in ...

The University of Florida will no longer allow its "Gator Bait" cheer at sporting events ... the Gator Nation. And I'm black. What about our history as the Gator Nation? We took a program from ...