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February 1, 2023

The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies

Source: NYT

After heavy criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board released on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies — stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives.

The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum.

And it added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea for a research project.

When it announced the A.P. course in August, the College Board clearly believed it was providing a class whose time had come, and it was celebrated by eminent scholars like Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard as an affirmation of the importance of African American studies. But the course, which is meant to be for all students of diverse backgrounds, quickly ran into a political buzz saw after an early draft leaked to conservative publications like The Florida Standard and National Review.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html

February 1, 2023

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.

This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.

This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks.




https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1620457139272814593
https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1620630268825698305

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