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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 ...
Penny Blue, a member-at-large on the Franklin County School Board in Virginia since 2013, lost her race Tuesday by a wide margin following months of heated debates on Covid-related protocols and ...
Image: A Virginia School board meeting reflects a battle playing out across the country over a once-obscure academic doctrine known as Critical Race Theory, in Ashburn (Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters)
A protester speaks against critical race theory at an Alamance-Burlington School System board meeting in 2021. Other state government officials and State Boards of Education (SBOE) also adopted similar measures in 2021. Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen prohibited teachers from asking students to "reflect on privilege".
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. The 1619 Project is a long-form journalistic revisionist historiographical work that takes a critical view of traditionally revered figures and events in American history, including the Patriots in the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, along with Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War ...
A Virginia county board of supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday condemning the instruction of critical race theory and the 1619 Project in its schools, as well as students selecting their pronouns.
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 ...
As of 2002, over 20 American law schools and at least three non-American law schools offered critical race theory courses or classes. [133] Critical race theory is also applied in the fields of education, political science, women's studies, ethnic studies, communication, sociology, and American studies. Other movements developed that apply ...