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. …
So!
It’s February.
The groundhog saw its damn shadow.
But you know what that means …
Another six weeks of legislative sessions!
Kidding, kidding. State legislative session dates don’t actually …
This week, the Republican National Committee voted overwhelmingly to censure two members of its own party. Their crime? Cooperating with the House Select Committee on January 6.
To underscore the …
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 …
On Wednesday, Alabama state legislators are set to begin discussing the amorphous and still-never-before-taught-below-the-college-level Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the Yellowhammer State’s schools. …
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 …
On Tuesday, pretend not-Trumper Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up a “tip line” for Virginia conservatives to use to drop dimes on educators who dare bring up the whiff of our country’s collective history of …
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 …
As my colleague Laura Clawson wrote about Monday, the “next wave of attacks on public education” will be using the term “transparency.” The trick here is to take away the power of educators and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
It took just under a week for Virginia to go from a Republican gubernatorial victory supposedly fueled by conservative backlash to school curricula to wild-eyed calls for book burning.
On Monday, the …
Eager as ever to jump backward in time, conservatives have used their time amid a global pandemic to push anti-queer legislation and try to ban books. As Daily Kos has covered, we’ve seen librarians …
A conversation has unfolded on social media—and God help us all—it has the audacity to be about the concept of being “woke,” “staying woke,” and all matters “wokeness”-related. This idea of staying …
You’re probably wondering, along with the rest of us, how such an inane straw-man issue like critical race theory (CRT) could be the fulcrum to catapult GOP darling Glenn Youngkin into the governor’s …
An unidentified Virginia voter had his big moment to articulate his opposition to critical race theory in public schools with the political comedy pair The Good Liars, and to say the least, he fumbled …
An unidentified Virginia mother’s claim that a public school history lesson led to her white daughter questioning whether she was evil is triggering Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole …
Patti Hidalgo Menders, president of the Loudoun County Virginia Republican Women’s Club, is the worst kind of Karen. She believes that teaching the racist history of America makes white kids feel bad, …
It’s not uncommon for the literary greats of earlier generations to speak wisdom that seems unbound by time, but the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison seemed to just do so effortlessly. …
