It turns out that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was once again right to take a stand against woke ideology when he banned a course ostensibly devoted to African American studies.
shilling for it on the public dime—slammed him for it, but the course was indeed more Marxism masquerading as ethnic studies.
They learn about freedom movements, slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow laws, all as part of state requirements for schools to teach African American history. DeSantis has just rejected a pilot Advanced Placement African American history class designed by the College Board , putting significant pressure on the College Board to rethink its approach to the course, as first reported by Stanley Kurtz at National Review.
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