After Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, segregationists attempted to use state power to punish progressive corporations, civil rights groups, and media outlets; pundits condemned what they saw as the narrowing of acceptable discourse.
The right has compiled a glossary of words like “abolition” and “equity” that it deems suspect in classroom contexts.
: When teaching actual history is branded as woke and therefore bad, our children are denied the truth that can make future mistakes much less likely.
Atlanta is tackling the big, uncomfortable questions no one else would dare— can we resolve systemic racism and reconcile this country’s history with slavery, when some won’t even acknowledge either
The wages of wokeness
The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil
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