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Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.

If classroom realities matter at all to governors and state legislators who have imposed CRT bans on schools, they would be embarrassed at having barred students from the kind of thought provoking teaching we witnessed in this project.

Our classrooms are not sites of demoralized children who hate themselves and their country. Students are hungry for explanations — real explanations — for the world they have inherited.

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Biden seeks counsel from a group of scholars who aren’t deeply versed in the racial threat to our democracy