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The religious right is running a boot camp for candidates trying to take over school boards
A hate group leading the right’s efforts to win school board elections, which is evidence that their fixation could be disastrous for LGBTQ students.
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People want to censor education for the same reasons that slaves weren’t allowed to read
Thomas Jefferson wrote that he envisioned America’s white-only education system being for “raking a few geniuses from the rubbish.” How ironic is it that today, several state legislatures want to continue that line of thinking?
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KKK distributes anti-LGBTQ fliers in Virginia after religious right disrupts school board
The fliers told people to pray for white Americans, oppose the “queer-loving” school board and “stop the Communists.”
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Chairman of Joint Chiefs blisters Matt Gaetz over “woke” military accusations
Gaetz, who railed against trans people in the military and critical race theory, was left gaping and shaking his head.
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School board meeting devolves into chaos as religious right protests policy on transgender students
One man was arrested and another cited for trespassing as the unruly crowd also protested teaching elementary students “critical race theory,” a course taught in law schools.
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Don’t just sing for Juneteenth. Commit to ending the racism that made it necessary.
Lawmakers like Joe Manchin should stop singing along to “We Shall Overcome,” and try passing legislation toward real and lasting change, so people actually can overcome.
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The best vaccine against the Republican agenda is a civics lesson
Anti-vaxxers and the anti-diversity crowd have a lot in common.
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Tennessee Republican defends counting Black people as 3/5 of human beings
State Rep. Justin Lafferty’s comments were called “horrible” by his Black colleagues, but he got applause from fellow Republicans.
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White mom goes viral after she cries that she’s “not a racist, dammit!” at school meeting
She says her daughter allegedly “regrets” being white after being exposed to a subject that isn’t taught in the school district.
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Iowa Republicans want to protect anti-LGBTQ slurs & ban anti-bias training to promote “diversity”
The proposal seeks to carbon copy a Trump-era executive order that similarly sought to ban any form of anti-bias training or implementation of “critical race theory” before a court blocked it.