Month: August 2022

College Board to debut Advanced Placement African American Studies class at 60 U.S. high schools – CBS News

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The College Board has announced it will begin offering an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course at 60 unnamed high schools across the U.S. this fall, CBS News has learned. The AP program, which gives high school students an opportunity to take college-level courses before graduation, currently covers 38 subjects, including English literature…

Minnesota Proposes to Require Teachers to Use Critical Race Theory. Here’s What Parents Need to Know. – Heritage.org

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Parents are spreading “disinformation and hysteria around critical race theory,” a former teacher recently told NPR. “Teachers can barely afford the resources for their own curriculum [so] it’s laughable that they’d shell out money [to teach] a college course,” he said. College, of course, is the place where radical activists…

“Freedom Dreams”: Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on 20th Anniversary of His Book & Movements Mattering – Free Speech TV

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On the last day of Black August, as President Biden calls for an assault weapons ban and more funding for police, we speak with UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley, who recently published the revised and expanded 20th-anniversary edition of his book “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,”…

“Freedom Dreams”: Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on 20th Anniversary of His Book & Why Movements Matter – Democracy Now!

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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. In a speech Tuesday in Pennsylvania promoting his Safer America Plan, President Biden called for an assault weapons…