Category: critical race theory

PREMIERING 2/28 at 7:30PM ET: Ian Rowe: We’re Handicapping Children With Victimhood Narratives Instead of Teaching Them How to Succeed

“If you say that there’s structural racism, institutional racism, systemic racism, then I have to insist on one other kind of racism. And that is surmountable racism,” says Ian Rowe, co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-focused, International Baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx. Prior to this, he was CEO of the…


Education Reform Documentary ‘Canceled’ by Woke Activists in Illinois

Two attempts to publicly show the documentary film “Truth and Lies in American Education” were thwarted this month by threats of violence from self-avowed Antifa activists. The one-hour movie advocates for parents’ rights, the abandonment of what it sees as the sexualization and political indoctrination of school children, and a return to classical education in…


Former Black Panther Discovers One of Her White Ancestors Arrived on the Mayflower

A radical social justice Marxist and former member of the Black Panthers discovered that one of her ancestors arrived in the New World from England on the 1620 Mayflower expedition. On Tuesday’s PBS episode of “Finding your Roots,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. interviewed Angela Davis, whom he said came to the show to have the mystery…


Watchdog Group Accuses California’s First Lady of Profiting by Showing ‘Gender Justice’ Films to Schoolchildren

SAN FRANCISCO—Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has been criticized for allegedly making a profit by screening her “gender justice” films to public school children. The scrutiny comes from a nonpartisan government watchdog group called Open the Books, which claimed that “Siebel Newsom spent years laying the ideological groundwork and political…


AP African American Studies: A New Front of Fighting Critical Race Theory in US Schools

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—The newly released Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies coursework has become the new front to fighting critical race theory (CRT) in schools in America. The focal point is whether the AP course—taught in high schools for students to earn college credits—is a vehicle for CRT, a Marxist framework that views issues through…


DeSantis Calls Out ‘Media Lies’ Over Banning AP Course on African American Studies

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Feb. 23 called out what he called “media lies” over the Sunshine State banning the Advanced Placement (AP) course for African American Studies. DeSantis said that the media “tried to create in Florida a narrative.” Read MoreCollege Board Says It Made Mistakes in AP African American Course Rollout “It’s basically a…


DeSantis to Boycott NBC and Its Affiliates Until Andrea Mitchell Corrects ‘Blatant Lie’

The office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on social media that it will not consider any requests for interviews from NBC and MSNBC until Andrea Mitchell corrects a “blatant lie.” During her Feb. 17 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, Andrea Mitchell, host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” asked a question that set off a…


Tim Scott Challenges Left’s Racial Rhetoric: ‘You Can Even Call Me Uncle Tim’

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) spoke of race, faith, and America on Feb. 22 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, as rumors of his potential 2024 bid percolate through political Washington. “God has already blessed America,” he told the audience. Scott invoked his experience as a successful black American to reject some of the criticism…


Critical Race Theory in Canada ‘Another Form of Segregation’: Black Conservative

A panel of five black conservatives spoke against critical race theory (CRT), which they say has seeped into Canadian classrooms and pervades many of the nation’s institutions. While CRT proponents say they are combating racism, the panelists say they are actually promoting a different kind of racism and creating division. “This stuff matters to people…


California State University Criticized for Telling Students to Report Professors for ‘Race-Related Stress’

A California university is advising its students of color to report on their professors who cause “race-related stress,” such as not being consistently called on in class. That advice, however, has drawn criticism from three Campus Reform correspondents, who are currently college students in Florida. California State University Monterey Bay’s Personal Growth and Counseling Center…