Tag: critical race theory

‘I Couldn’t Just Sit on the Sidelines Anymore’: North Carolina Parents Run for Local School Boards

Like many parents who chose to run for their district school boards this year, Crissy Pratt had never been involved in local politics. That changed during the COVID-19 lockdowns when Pratt began watching the live-streamed Guilford County Board of Education meetings in North Carolina to keep up with the ever-changing COVID restrictions. What she saw…


[PREMIERING NOW] Douglas Murray: How the West’s ‘Destructive Games of Self-Immolation’ Derange Society and Empower Dictators

This episode will premiere on Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. ET.       From rule of law to liberal democracy to the scientific method, “everything we think of as modernity is Western in origin,” says author and journalist Douglas Murray. “And the West has given them to the rest of the world not because…


Douglas Murray: How the West’s ‘Destructive Games of Self-Immolation’ Derange Society and Empower Dictators

From rule of law to liberal democracy to the scientific method, “everything we think of as modernity is Western in origin,” says author and journalist Douglas Murray. “And the West has given them to the rest of the world not because they’re racist, but because they work.” Murray’s latest book is titled “The War on…


Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Virginia School District’s Critical Race Theory Indoctrination

A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by families seeking to block their local school district’s “anti-racist” policy that labels white, Christian students as a part of an oppressive “dominant culture.” The lawsuit was brought by five families against the public school system of Albemarle County, Virginia. The school district in 2019 adopted an…


Marx Would Be Canceled by the Left If Their Criticisms of the West Were Honest: Douglas Murray

Journalist and author of the new book “The War on the West,” Douglas Murray, says people around the world have been misled by hypocritical and conflicting anti-West rhetoric by the left, which reveres German political theorist Karl Marx but will allow the denigration of Western heroes like U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and British Prime Minister Winston…


Legislation to Prohibit Discriminatory Teaching in K-12 Classrooms Advances in South Carolina House

South Carolina legislation that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in the K-12 classroom advanced in the House on April 21. House Bill 5183, or the South Carolina Transparency and Integrity in Education Act, would prevent “ideological and viewpoint biases” being presented as fact instead of theory while maintaining “complete histories of…


South Carolina Legislation to Prohibit Discriminatory Teaching in K–12 Classrooms Advances

Legislation in South Carolina that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in K–12 classrooms was approved by the state’s House of Representatives on April 21. House Bill 5183, or the South Carolina Transparency and Integrity in Education Act, seeks to prevent “ideological and viewpoint biases” from being presented as fact instead of…


Teachers Union Head Says Parental Rights Bills Are ‘The Way in Which Wars Start’

The American Federation of Teachers has doubled down on opposition against Florida’s efforts to affirm parents’ role in their children’s upbringing, with its leader claiming the newly-signed education law would spark hatred and wars. “This is propaganda. This is misinformation,” AFT President Randi Weingarten said during an interview on the Rick Smith podcast last week….


DeSantis Signs Bill Into Law to Dissolve Disney World’s Self-Governing Status; Florida Releases Images of ‘CRT’ in Math Textbooks | NTD Evening News

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis signed a bill into law on April 22 that would dissolve Walt Disney World’s special self-governing status in the state. The governor’s office also released images of what he called critical race theory found in school math textbooks. …


Florida Releases Examples of ‘Problematic’ Textbooks Featuring Critical Race Theory Elements

The Florida Department of Education (DOE) released Thursday examples of “problematic elements” in instructional materials, which include references to tenets of critical race theory (CRT). The examples’ publishing followed the DOE’s Monday announcement to “reject publishers’ attempts to indoctrinate students” with ideologies such as the CRT. In one of the pictures shown on Florida’s DOE…