Alabamans are complaining about Black History Month because they’re confused about Critical Race Theory
2 years, 11 months ago

Alabamans are complaining about Black History Month because they’re confused about Critical Race Theory

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The head of Alabama’s education department has hit out at parents for confusing so-called Critical Race Theory and Black History Month. “I had two calls in the last week that they’re having a Black History Month programme and they consider having a Black history programme CRT,” he added on Wednesday. “Having a Black history programme is not CRT.” The teaching of Critical Race Theory has been banned in at least seven US states, and more than a dozen are currently considering bans of their own – including Alabama. “It should not be controversial to admit the system of government they set up 250 years ago wasn’t built from the ground up to ensure equality for all.” Black History Month, which was founded in 1926 as a week-long celebration of African-American history and contributions to society, has long been addressed in schools.

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Critical race theory ban at Temecula Valley Unified stands for now, judge rules
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Critical race theory ban at Temecula Valley Unified stands for now, judge rules

LA Times  

From left, attorneys Mark Rosenbaum, Amanda Mangaser Savage and Scott Humphreys and Temecula teachers Dawn Murray-Sibby, Amy Eytchison and Jennee Scharf announce a lawsuit challenging the Temecula Valley Unified school board’s ban on teaching critical race theory in August. Temecula Valley Unified School District’s decision to block critical race theory instruction in its classrooms will continue for now, a Riverside …

Even kids are now living in fear as they’re harassed by Christian nationalist bullies
1 year ago

Even kids are now living in fear as they’re harassed by Christian nationalist bullies

Raw Story  

The news has been all over Nikki Haley’s inability to say “slavery” before she was called out on it, but few are pointing to the larger issue: the institutionalization of racism through American law that has happened in 16 Red states now as well as in hundreds of smaller towns and individual schools. From Florida to Texas to little towns …

Temecula school district sued over its ban of critical race theory
1 year, 5 months ago

Temecula school district sued over its ban of critical race theory

LA Times  

Standing left to right are attorneys Mark Rosenbaum, Amanda Mangaser Savage and Scott Humphreys along with teachers Dawn Murray-Sibby, Amy Eytchison and Jennifer Scharf — all taking part in a lawsuit against the Temecula school district’s ban of critical race theory. The Temecula Valley Unified School District faces litigation over a ban it enacted on critical race theory, taking the …

Report finds democracy for Black Americans is under attack
1 year, 8 months ago

Report finds democracy for Black Americans is under attack

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Urban League's annual State of Black America report being released Saturday draws on …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Celebrates Black History Month In The Worst Way
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Celebrates Black History Month In The Worst Way

Huff Post  

Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Photo:Getty Images If a middle school student at a public school in Sarasota County, Florida, wants to read “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, one of their parents will have to be notified first. “Happy Black History Month — now let’s ban a book that says racism is wrong!” Tallulah Brand, a …

Black history class revised by College Board amid criticism
1 year, 11 months ago

Black history class revised by College Board amid criticism

Associated Press  

— High school senior Kahlila Bandele is used to courses that don’t address the African American experience. In her AP European History course, she said, “we’re not discussing Black people at all” — even though they were colonized by Europeans. College Board officials said developers consulted with professors from more than 200 colleges, including several historically Black institutions, and took …

Black history AP class rejected in Florida catches on
1 year, 11 months ago

Black history AP class rejected in Florida catches on

The Independent  

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Schools for scandal
2 years, 5 months ago

Schools for scandal

The Economist  

United States | Schools for scandal “Critical race theory” is being weaponised. With the help of Mr Rufo, now a director of an “initiative” on crt at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank, critical race theory, once an obscure academic topic, became a prominent Republican issue in a matter of weeks. “I can describe the academic discipline of Critical Race …

The Real Dangers Of The Right-Wing Attacks On Anti-Racist Education
2 years, 7 months ago

The Real Dangers Of The Right-Wing Attacks On Anti-Racist Education

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Last Saturday, a white 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 people and wounding three more. “If you guys want to know why I’m thinking about quitting at the end of the year, it’s because of these types of policies — the fact that I have to have this conversation with …

GOP Outraged By Ketanji Brown Jackson's Link To School Teaching Anti-Racism
2 years, 9 months ago

GOP Outraged By Ketanji Brown Jackson's Link To School Teaching Anti-Racism

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans targeted U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday over her connection to a school that teaches anti-racism, branding the curriculum under the GOP boogeyman of “critical race theory.” In an email blast telling supporters that Jackson serves on the board of trustees at Georgetown Day School — a private school in Washington, D.C., that …

Mississippi gov signs law limiting race in lessons
2 years, 9 months ago

Mississippi gov signs law limiting race in lessons

Associated Press  

Tate Reeves signed a bill Monday to limit how race can be discussed in classrooms, and it became law immediately. “Any claim that this bill will somehow stop Mississippi kids from learning about American history is just flat-out wrong.” The short title of Senate Bill 2113 says it would prohibit “critical race theory.” But the main text of the legislation …

Mississippi governor signs into law prohibition on schools teaching critical race theory
2 years, 9 months ago

Mississippi governor signs into law prohibition on schools teaching critical race theory

CNN  

CNN — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday signed into law a bill described as a prohibition on critical race theory, becoming the latest Republican-controlled state to legislate how history and race can be taught in schools. That’s why I signed legislation that will help keep CRT where it belongs – out of classrooms.” Senate Bill 2113 forbids public schools …

Talk about race: Mississippi House passes bill to set limits
2 years, 10 months ago

Talk about race: Mississippi House passes bill to set limits

Associated Press  

— The same Mississippi Legislature that proclaimed racial reconciliation after removing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag nearly two years ago passed a bill Thursday to limit how race can be discussed in classrooms. Several Black legislators said during the six-hour debate that the bill could squelch honest discussion about the harmful effects of racism because parents could …

Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia
2 years, 10 months ago

Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — It was literally the first thing Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, did when he took office last month: sign an executive order designed to root out critical race theory from the state’s education system. “Anyone who thinks that the concepts that actually underpin critical race theory are not in our schools hasn’t been in our schools,” Youngkin …

A look inside Mississippi’s only critical race theory class and an unlikely ally
2 years, 10 months ago

A look inside Mississippi’s only critical race theory class and an unlikely ally

CNN  

Oxford, Mississippi CNN — Three weeks ago, Brittany Murphree enrolled in Law 743, a unique class for the University of Mississippi. University of Mississippi Law School Student Brittany Murphree CNN Yvette Butler, the professor of Law 743, said CRT was born from the legal academy in the 1980s to analyze and understand why racial inequality still exists despite the aftermath …

Alabama schools accused of teaching "critical race theory" by recognizing Black History Month
2 years, 11 months ago

Alabama schools accused of teaching "critical race theory" by recognizing Black History Month

Salon  

School officials in Alabama say they're being accused by parents of teaching students the now-forbidden tenets of "critical race theory" simply by recognizing Black History Month. AL.com reports that Alabama Superintendent Eric Mackey told members of the Alabama House Education Policy Committee this week that many parents are accusing schools of teaching critical race theory even if the lessons in …

The critics were right: 'Critical race theory' panic is just a cover for silencing educators
2 years, 11 months ago

The critics were right: 'Critical race theory' panic is just a cover for silencing educators

Raw Story  

When Republicans across the nation started storming school board meetings, in full-blown hysterics about something called "critical race theory," the initial reaction of the non-Fox News-watcher was confusion. But soon it became clear that "critical race theory" was being invoked as a scare term, exploiting this multisyllabic academic jargon as cover for what was, in actuality, an effort to censor …

SC lawmakers vow to take time on critical race theory rules
2 years, 11 months ago

SC lawmakers vow to take time on critical race theory rules

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina House members discussing critical race theory in public schools and what should — or shouldn’t — come up in class promised Wednesday to take their time crafting new rules for teachers. The chairwoman of the House Education and Public Works Committee said she wasn’t out for a “witch hunt for parents, teachers or students” but …

Missouri bill would ban critical race theory in schools
2 years, 11 months ago

Missouri bill would ban critical race theory in schools

Associated Press  

— Missouri House lawmakers on Tuesday debated bills that would ban critical race theory in K-12 schools and give parents and guardians more control over what their children learn, an issue that likely will dominate this session. One bill, considered in the House education committee, would prohibit Missouri schools from teaching critical race theory, a framework for examining the effects …

The Missing Voices In The Panic Over Critical Race Theory
3 years, 1 month ago

The Missing Voices In The Panic Over Critical Race Theory

Huff Post  

The flashpoint was the “runaway slave” game during Black History Month. With the attention on “parents’ rights” in the widely covered Virginia election, one group was conspicuously absent: Black families who support teaching about race and racism. “I’m a Virginia suburban mom,” said Kernodle, a resident of Arlington for 16 years and the mother of two high-schoolers in Arlington Public …

Opinion: Efforts to diagnose Democrats’ biggest problem are off the mark
3 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: Efforts to diagnose Democrats’ biggest problem are off the mark

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of history. Despite local victories for candidates like Michelle Wu, the …

The FBI is not targeting opponents of critical race theory
3 years, 3 months ago

The FBI is not targeting opponents of critical race theory

Associated Press  

CLAIM: “Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, citing ‘threats.’” AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. In a memo Monday, Garland directed federal authorities to address a rise in criminal conduct targeting school board members and public schools employees, following a request from the National School Boards Association. Following the …

This Texas high school principal was put on administrative leave after being accused of promoting critical race theory
3 years, 4 months ago

This Texas high school principal was put on administrative leave after being accused of promoting critical race theory

CNN  

San Antonio, Texas CNN — A Texas high school principal who found himself in the middle of a controversy over critical race theory was placed on paid administrative leave this week. At a July 26 school board meeting, Stetson Clark, a former school board candidate, said he was concerned about the “implementation of critical race theory in our district” and …

Editorial: What critical race theory is — and isn’t — and why it belongs in schools
3 years, 5 months ago

Editorial: What critical race theory is — and isn’t — and why it belongs in schools

LA Times  

Race is a touchy subject in this country at the most easygoing of times, and these are not the most easygoing of times. But it’s particularly troubling when a board of education assembles a panel to educate itself and the public about ethnic studies and stacks it with people who detest critical race theory. That’s what happened in July at …

Randi Weingarten: You can’t keep us from teaching students honest history
3 years, 5 months ago

Randi Weingarten: You can’t keep us from teaching students honest history

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Randi Weingarten is president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers. Critical race theory is the examination, principally in law school but also elsewhere at the undergraduate and graduate level in college, of whether systemic racism exists and whether it affects law and public policy – it asks, for example, whether policies that prohibited Black Americans from …

Schools not teaching race theory, some want to ban it anyway
3 years, 5 months ago

Schools not teaching race theory, some want to ban it anyway

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama might ban so-called “critical race theory” from being taught in public K-12 schools even though education officials said no schools are actually doing so. State Superintendent Eric Mackey said state school board members want to deal with the issue but said critical race theory is “certainly not” taught in schools now. One draft of the state …

'Critical Race Theory'? Here's What Teachers Say They're Actually Teaching
3 years, 5 months ago

'Critical Race Theory'? Here's What Teachers Say They're Actually Teaching

Huff Post  

vgajic via Getty Images Parents in school districts across the country are protesting critical race theory. ― Zach Balkcom, a high school teacher in Baldwin County, Georgia barbaragibbbons via Getty Images “If students ask why Black people had to sit at the back of the bus, are we expected to just ignore it?” I’m a second grade teacher in Texas. …

Critical race theory: Conservatives actually love it – when they turn the subject to ‘oppressed’ White people
3 years, 5 months ago

Critical race theory: Conservatives actually love it – when they turn the subject to ‘oppressed’ White people

CNN  

CNN — If you’re trying to figure out why so many conservatives despise critical race theory, here’s some historical context you should remember: White conservatives oppose critical race theory – only when it’s applied to Black people. Critical race theory opponents borrow from the anti-racists they denounce Conservatives accuse critical race theorists of “planting hatred in the minds of the …

Critical race theory panic: Surveying the elusive ‘national conversation on race’
3 years, 6 months ago

Critical race theory panic: Surveying the elusive ‘national conversation on race’

CNN  

CNN — Keziah Ridgeway says she’s the only teacher she knows in Philadelphia who teaches critical race theory in public high school – and she teaches it in her anthropology class, as one framework among many to understand human cultures. “It’s a conflation of issues” – history, critical race theory, equity, diversity and inclusion – “it’s all being put together. …

I'm A Black Mom. Here's What White Parents Need To Understand About Critical Race Theory.
3 years, 6 months ago

I'm A Black Mom. Here's What White Parents Need To Understand About Critical Race Theory.

Huff Post  

A sign reading "Stop sugarcoating American history" sits at the feet of demonstrators at a march against racism on June 19, 2020, at a high school in Milton, Massachusetts. I was just a Black mom whose two Black sons had never read a school-assigned book in which people who looked like them weren’t the “magical negro” trope or in chains. …

Critical race theory and the scam of the ban
3 years, 6 months ago

Critical race theory and the scam of the ban

Al Jazeera  

Critical race theory is too advanced to be taught in schools. Once again, the racist and fascist American right is conning the American public, this time in declaring critical race theory an existential threat to the United States. The nature of all bans on critical race theory is a bait and switch, to declare the teaching of a more-inclusive history …

The Battle Over Teaching Critical Race Theory : Fresh Air
3 years, 6 months ago

The Battle Over Teaching Critical Race Theory : Fresh Air

NPR  

The Battle Over Teaching Critical Race Theory : Fresh Air An NBC News analysis finds at least 165 local and national groups are trying to disrupt or block lessons on critical race theory. "Opponents are using critical race theory as really more of a catchall to include anything teaching students about systemic racism, any mention of white privilege, and really …

Understanding The Republican Opposition To Critical Race Theory
3 years, 6 months ago

Understanding The Republican Opposition To Critical Race Theory

NPR  

Understanding The Republican Opposition To Critical Race Theory NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Barbara Sprunt break down the Republican led efforts in the U.S. to discourage educators from teaching critical race theory in grade-level schools. Trump's EO didn't actually mention critical race theory then, even in the sections specifying what shouldn't be taught in the armed forces or at federal agencies. …

The Hypocrisy Of Honoring Juneteenth While Condemning Critical Race Theory
3 years, 6 months ago

The Hypocrisy Of Honoring Juneteenth While Condemning Critical Race Theory

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING America has found itself at a contradictory point in history yet again. In a statement Thursday, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty said making Juneteenth a federal holiday is “important and long overdue” but is not the end of the fight to rectify this country’s racist past. We look forward to joining President Biden this afternoon as …

I teach critical race theory. This is what Republicans trying to ban it don’t understand
3 years, 6 months ago

I teach critical race theory. This is what Republicans trying to ban it don’t understand

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Most K-12 schools have done little …

Column: Why many Americans refuse to talk honestly about Juneteenth
3 years, 6 months ago

Column: Why many Americans refuse to talk honestly about Juneteenth

LA Times  

A marcher carries a flag with the year 1619, the beginning of American slavery, in the Juneteenth march in Los Angeles on June 19, 2020. There were television commercials and proclamations about trying to understand each other better as an uncomfortably high number of white people like Kershaw questioned why they hadn’t heard of Juneteenth before George Floyd’s murder. Contrary …

‘Critical race theory’ becomes a flashpoint in US public schools
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Critical race theory’ becomes a flashpoint in US public schools

Al Jazeera  

As Americans face a racial reckoning, a fierce political debate is emerging over how race is discussed in schools. Many aim to ban “critical race theory”, a school of thought that holds that major institutions in the US are inherently racist and constructed by their nature to perpetuate white supremacy. Republicans: Critical race theory is divisive Florida’s Republican governor, Ron …

Critical race theory banned in Florida schools
3 years, 7 months ago

Critical race theory banned in Florida schools

CNN  

CNN — Florida has become the latest state to ban critical race theory, continuing the growing charge by Republican lawmakers against schools teaching about systemic racism. The amendment states topics must be “factual and objective,” and specifically prohibits “the teaching of Critical Race Theory, meaning the theory that racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but that racism is …

Teaching Race And History In America's Schools : 1A
3 years, 7 months ago

Teaching Race And History In America's Schools : 1A

NPR  

Teaching Race And History In America's Schools Enlarge this image toggle caption RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images The latest culture war is playing out in the American classroom. Several states including Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma have banned teaching Critical Race Theory, an academic pursuit examining how race intersects with history. Many may not know the …

State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism
3 years, 7 months ago

State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Teachers and professors in Idaho will be prevented from “indoctrinating” students on race. At least 16 states are considering or have signed into law bills that would limit the teaching of certain ideas linked to “critical race theory,” which seeks to reframe the narrative of American history. Brian Kemp wrote in a letter to state education board …

State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism
3 years, 7 months ago

State GOP lawmakers try to limit teaching about race, racism

LA Times  

Betty Sawyer joins educators and community activists May 19 in protesting Utah lawmakers’ plans to pass resolutions encouraging a ban of critical race theory concepts outside of the Capitol in Salt Lake City as supporters and counterprotesters stand behind her. At least 16 states are considering or have signed into law bills that would limit the teaching of certain ideas …

Teachers Say Laws Banning Critical Race Theory Are Putting A Chill On Their Lessons
3 years, 7 months ago

Teachers Say Laws Banning Critical Race Theory Are Putting A Chill On Their Lessons

NPR  

Teachers Say Laws Banning Critical Race Theory Are Putting A Chill On Their Lessons Enlarge this image toggle caption Sue Ogrocki/AP Sue Ogrocki/AP As Republican lawmakers across the country advance state bills that would limit how public school teachers can discuss race in their classrooms, educators say the efforts are already having a chilling effect on their lessons. Sponsor Message …

Critical race theory is a lens. Here are 11 ways looking through it might refine your view of history
3 years, 7 months ago

Critical race theory is a lens. Here are 11 ways looking through it might refine your view of history

CNN  

CNN — Critical race theory is just that – a theory – but the term has been weaponized, with its most extreme critics alleging that merely studying the theory is racist. Recommended reading: Pace v. Alabama, a 1986 report on the “long, cruel history” of America’s “last taboo” and scholar Allison Skinner’s 2016 report on the “hidden bias against interracial …

Column: Republicans are passing laws to suppress the truth about slavery’s enduring legacy
3 years, 7 months ago

Column: Republicans are passing laws to suppress the truth about slavery’s enduring legacy

LA Times  

An art piece depicting chained people is displayed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. “There’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” said Republican Florida Gov. This, said the chief legal officers in states such as Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, is a “thinly veiled attempt at bringing into our states’ …

GOP lawmakers seek ban on ‘critical race theory’ teaching
3 years, 7 months ago

GOP lawmakers seek ban on ‘critical race theory’ teaching

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Teaching so-called “critical race theory” would be prohibited in Ohio’s K-12 classrooms under a pair of bills introduced Tuesday by Republican state lawmakers that are similar to legislation introduced nationwide by GOP lawmakers. Neither bill actually uses the phrase “critical race theory,” though Jones criticized the concept by name in a news release. Critical race theory is …

Noem pushes to bar ‘critical race theory’ from universities
3 years, 7 months ago

Noem pushes to bar ‘critical race theory’ from universities

Associated Press  

— South Dakota’s public universities shouldn’t be teaching certain concepts of race and racism, Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday, in line with a nationwide GOP movement to keep critical race theory out of classrooms. In a letter to the Board of Regents that oversees the state’s six public universities, the Republican governor targeted critical race theory and the Pulitzer Prize-winning …

A school district tried to address racism, a group of parents fought back
3 years, 8 months ago

A school district tried to address racism, a group of parents fought back

CNN  

CNN — Three years ago, a video went viral of a group of teenage students chanting the n-word at a private party in Southlake, Texas. We deny the current CCAP is a solution to any racist issues and, in fact, creates more racism, not less.” ‘Critical race theory ain’t coming here,’ PAC says At Monday’s school board meeting, many parents …

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