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Since 2020, efforts have been made by conservatives and others to challenge critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools in the United States.. Following the 2020 protests of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd as well as the killing of Breonna Taylor, school districts began to introduce additional curricula and create diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-positions to address ...
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi. After a decade as a civil rights lawyer, Bell moved into ...
Critical race theory ( CRT) is an interdisciplinary academic field focused on the relationships between social conceptions of race and ethnicity, social and political laws, and media. CRT also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, and not based only on individuals' prejudices. [ 1][ 2] The word critical in the name is an ...
The escalating battle over critical race theory has shone a spotlight on a previously obscure process: how local school districts set the curricula shaping what students learn.
The local backlash to addressing race in schools has been fueled in part by national conservative groups and activists, who see the anti-critical race theory fights as a winning political issue ...
But Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, an attorney, civil rights advocate, and law school professor, is credited with coining the term during the first Critical Race Theory workshop, held at the University of ...
July 28: A HSE school board meeting turned unruly and tense during public comment over the school board’s selection of a trustee for the local library. A speaker attempted to read from a book ...
Tara J. Yosso. Tara J. Yosso is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. Yosso's research and teaching apply the frameworks of critical race theory and critical media literacy to examine educational access and opportunity. Specifically, Yosso is interested in understanding how communities of ...