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One Black Family, One Affirmative Action Ruling, and Lots of Thoughts

By: Audra D. S. Burch
The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest version of a question that the Whitehead family — and the nation — has been grappling with for years: How to deal with the legacy of slavery?

DeSantis May Have Been Right

By: John McWhorter
The College Board amended its original plan for an A.P. African American studies course. It was probably for the best.

DeSantis May Have Been Right

By: John McWhorter
The College Board amended its original plan for an A.P. African American studies course. It was probably for the best.

Climate, Justice, and IR

By: Jarrod Hayes

Adam, Daniela and Jarrod discuss the challenge of thinking about climate justice in the context of IR and existing models of justice and reparations. Does the Holocaust and other human rights cases provide a good or useful template? Can IR approaches even handle climate change?

Inside the College Board’s Revised African American Studies Curriculum

By: Dana Goldstein
A guide to some changes in the curriculum, and how the new course differs from standard treatments of Black history in American high schools.

An entire unit on “the origins, mission and global influence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Movement for Black Lives” has been deleted from the 2022 framework.

Florida Gives Reasons for Rejecting A.P. African American Studies Class

By: Eliza Fawcett and Anemona Hartocollis
The state’s Department of Education cites examples of what it calls “the woke indoctrination” of students.

Florida’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr. said parts of the course were “masquerading as education.”
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