Critical race theory, as taught in schools today, is vastly different from how it developed more than 40 years ago by Derek Bell and others.

The Man Behind Critical Race Theory As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

State lawmakers should continue to pursue proposals that reject critical race theory. They must be specific about what they're prohibiting.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have adopted proposals that reject the teaching of critical race theory in K–12 schools. Some of this state legislation appropriately prohibits government ...

How has the legal field of critical race theory been shaped by Harvard Law School, and how do its students and scholars view conservative attacks on the field?

Some conservatives have taken to using the phrase "critical race theory" to label any race-related instruction that touches on racial oppression.

As college students have returned to campus, anti-critical race theory efforts are in high gear, asserting that the legal academic concept poses a "threat" to conservative Christian colleges and ...

Long before the racist backlash, critical race theory was a useful tool — for explaining racist backlash ...

Efforts to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools and universities have been proposed or adopted in 49 U.S. states, according to a new analysis by the University of California ...

But critical race theory’s merchants of doubt, by legislating against accurate teaching of America’s racial history, put their feelings over empirical facts.

And at least 19 states have so-called “anti-critical race theory” laws or regulations—despite the fact that CRT is rarely taught below the graduate university level.

Critical Race Theory might not be what you think it is, educator says. Some people can even be unaware they're teaching it.