Christina and Renee Ellis both attend a predominantly white high school in Pennsylvania, and they both were affected when the school joined a wave of others in banning books written by Black authors. …
Conservative Republicans are running around the nation and scrambling to put laws into place to ban critical race theory (CRT) as if it were as bad as insurrections, militia groups, white …
Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin officially set up a “tip line” to give his conservative constituents the opportunity to rat out educators who have the nerve to teach actual American history in …
A whopping 71 bills trying to limit what schools can teach, in particular about race and U.S. history, have been introduced in state legislatures over the last three weeks alone, according to a new …
“Report your kid’s teacher for admitting racism exists” is apparently going to be to 2022 as “report your coworker for communism” was to the early 1950s. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has a freakin’ …
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is so toxic we could really have a DeSantis section at Daily Kos, and it still likely wouldn’t be enough coverage of how he’s failing taxpayers. In one of his …
When I report on police brutality, inequity in public education, or the need for criminal justice reform, it’s not to keep a daily account of unconnected, singular examples of bias. It’s to provide so …
Newly empowered Virginia Republicans are ready to roll with a bill banning the teaching of anything that risks making any white student feel bad about things white people have done. Or, as it’s likely …
Despite the campaign rhetoric from Virginia’s Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin about returning traditional conservatism to Republican politics in the commonwealth after two years of Democratic control, a …
A resident of Katy, Texas, a city about 30 miles west of Houston, penned a message to Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator Jerry Craft six months ago that some of his books were being pulled …
Transparency is to 2022 what critical race theory was to 2021. That’s the word from Christopher Rufo, the Republican boy wonder who whipped up the anti-CRT hysteria of the past year. Now that school …
Given that we’re continuing to face a global pandemic, with the omicron variant being a particular concern worldwide and here in the United States, it’s sadly not surprising that some conservatives …
The Republican assault on the teaching of “divisive concepts” like the existence of racism continues, and a new bill proposed in Indiana makes it ever more clear that this is an all-out assault on …
by Ashton Lattimore
This article was originally published at Prism
This year has been marked by political and public health turmoil, environmental disasters, and widespread social injustice, and it’s …
One of congressional Republicans’ takeaways from Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial win in Virginia was the notion that public opinion is on their side when it comes to crafting curricula in …
White parents in school districts and states around the country have gone screaming to school boards and state governments about how their children were being harmed by the teaching of “critical race …
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a press conference Wednesday with his Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez and his Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran, along with a few conservative moms from the activist …
The whole “critical race theory” uproar is really about stripping schools of any teaching about racism or the contributions of Black people and other people of color to U.S. history, rolling back any …
Thanks are due to the Williamson County, Tennessee, chapter of Moms for Liberty for once again clarifying what the “critical race theory” (CRT) uproar is really about. We can say until we’re blue in …
A new poll confirms that when Republicans scream about critical race theory, what they really mean is they oppose the teaching of anything about racism in the U.S.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll …
