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The public debate over critical race theory (CRT) is in large part a semantics argument, with the anti-CRT faction attempting to include "all of the various cultural insanities" people hear about ...
Media Matters has identified 64 Facebook groups dedicated to opposing “critical race theory,” with at least 9,800 combined members. Nearly all of these groups were created this year.
What exactly is critical race theory? The answer to that question appears to have eluded many, as controversies over racial diversity trainings and curricula have swept the nation's schools in ...
Twenty-seven states have introduced bills this legislative session to ban race-based education under the banner of critical race theory – a decades-old legal theory that considers how slavery ...
Spewing extreme, violent demagoguery. On Fox News and other right-wing outlets, “critical race theory” is described as a ”racist theology,” a “neo-marxist religion,” and ...
What is critical race theory? “Critical race theory” goes beyond advocating for civil rights or banning discrimination. Proponents see it as a framework to examine how the taint of racism ...
The revolt against critical race theory isn’t just a “conspiracy theory." It's a resistance to ideas that many Americans see as malignant.
Media Critical race theory was the hot topic on Fox News this summer. Not so much anymore. Concern about the intellectual framework triggered clashes at local school board meetings.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Barbara Sprunt break down the Republican led efforts in the U.S. to discourage educators from teaching critical race theory in grade-level schools.
Ian Prior, executive director of Fight for Schools, told CNN that members of the school board are in a private Facebook group promoting critical race theory and seek to target parents who oppose it.
Whidbey groups clash over ‘critical race theory’ in school. One organizer said that because most students are white, she saw no reason for a “Black Lives Matter” banner.