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Little Rock’s NPR affiliate reports: Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva wrote to leaders of six Arkansas schools on Monday with the most specific concerns yet about the AP African American Studies course. The letter — sent to the handful of schools that plan to continue offering the pilot course — also asks the schools to submit course materials to the …

“We’ve got to get back to the basics of teaching math, of teaching, reading, writing and American history. And we cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America and hate one another. It’s one of the reasons that we put into law banning things like indoctrination and CRT [critical …

Tampa’s NPR affiliate reports: A student organization that serves African-American men who attend Tallahassee Community College might have to change its name or risk losing funding under a new Florida law. Tyler Soto, a student at TCC, is a member of Black Male Achievers. He says they’re working out possible new names, such as “Male Achievers” or “Scholar Male Achievers.” …

CBS News reports: A Texas woman is facing federal charges after threatening a United States District Judge overseeing one of Donald Trump’s cases and a Democratic Congresswoman. “Hey, you stupid slave,” the voicemail began, followed by a racial slur. According to documents from the Southern District of Texas court, Abigail Jo Shry, of Alvin, allegedly left a voicemail for Judge …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: A group of “teachers, students, community members and Teamsters” marched to the Miami-Dade school board headquarters Wednesday in protest of Florida’s controversial Black history standards. The protest is being organized by the Miami Center for Racial Justice. At issue in particular is a state curriculum standard to teach middle school students “how slaves developed skills which, …

The Arkansas Times reports: Word came Friday from distraught educators that a new Advanced Placement course on African American history was suddenly on the chopping block, just two days before the first bell of the school year was set to ring in Arkansas high schools planning to offer the class. An official from the Arkansas Department of Education reportedly alerted …

Houston’s ABC affiliate reports: Some Conroe ISD trustees want to crack down on displays of racial inclusivity and pride, saying they represent, “symbols of personal ideologies.” One trustee says a child was traumatized by a poster showing different colored children holding hands and had to switch classrooms. Citing “a number of parents reaching out to her about supposed displays of …

“The whole left lies about whites. The vast majority of your kids’ teachers lie about whites. They lie about sex and gender because their interest is not, is it true? Is it true is not a left-wing question. Does it further the cause of equity? That might be. Does it shatter the bourgeoisie, the middle class values that have shaped …

The Associated Press reports: NASCAR has suspended driver Noah Gragson indefinitely, the company said Saturday. The decision came after the driver appeared to have liked an insensitive meme with a photo of George Floyd on social media. Gragson, 25, was amid his first full season as a driver in the Cup Series, NASCAR’s top league, when he was replaced Saturday …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: The oldest intercollegiate Black fraternity in the country is moving its 2025 conference from Florida, calling the state “hostile” to the Black community. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. will relocate the fraternity’s 99th General Convention and 119th Anniversary Convention from Orlando “due to Governor Ron DeSantis’ harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against the Black community,” according …

The Guardian reports: Far-right former Fox News host Tucker Carlson denies being racist – but says if he was, he would “just say so”. “Being racist is not a crime,” Carlson says in a new biography, Tucker, by Chadwick Moore. “Maybe [it is] a moral crime, but not a statutory crime – so if I was racist, I would just …

NBC News reports: A graphic designer and activist who made TikTok content debunking the claim by Jason Aldean that his controversial music video only uses “real news footage” has been facing a wave of racist and violent hate mail by defenders of his song. Destinee Stark is among the first who publicly criticized Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” …

County music star Jason Aldean raged against cancel culture last night at a concert in Cincinnati, much to the delight of his fans. ALDEAN: Well, I got to tell you guys, man, it’s been a long-ass week. It’s been a long week. And I’ve seen a lot of stuff. I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m …

“The curriculum includes how Black slaves were able to use their experience in some cases to make their brutally hard lives better. The course examines the various duties and trades performed by slaves like agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation. ‘Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.’ …

PolitFact reports: PolitiFact dissected the video and found that although many of the clips we were able to verify do come from news footage of real events, many of the scenes depicting crowd violence are from outside the U.S., including Ukraine, Germany and Canada, with one dating as far back as 2010. Protesters run down fiery street (1:35): We found …

NBC News reports: Kerry Kennedy, a sister of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasted her brother in a brief statement Monday after a report that quoted him as saying Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are most immune. “I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid …

“Three weeks ago if we would’ve said that Joy Reid, and Michelle Obama, and Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would’ve been called racist. But now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us. “They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ Yeah. We know you do not …

ABC News reports: On Thursday, the Supreme Court set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions. A little more than half of Americans – 52% — approve of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on restricting the use of …

Politico reports: The high court’s decision hinged on two cases where Students for Fair Admissions is challenging race-conscious practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — the nation’s oldest private and public universities. At its core, the group, which says it represents about 20,000 students, has alleged that Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asian American applicants. …

The Birmingham Herald reports: Gov. Kay Ivey has called a special session of the Legislature to redraw Alabama’s congressional district map. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 8 that the current map, with one majority Black district out of seven, likely violates the Voting Rights Act. A three-judge federal court has given the state until July 21 to draw …