Talk Out of School

A Conversation with Prof Yohuru Williams about the Push to Censor US History in Schools

Episode Summary

Leonie interviewed Prof. Yohuru Williams, Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas, who discussed about the push to ban books and restrict and censor the teaching of discrimination and civil rights history in our public schools, and how parents and teachers can fight back.

Episode Notes

Gothamist, Vaccination rates vary for students attending NYC's public schools, March 9, 2022  https://gothamist.com/news/vaccination-rates-vary-for-students-attending-nycs-public-schools

Books by Yohuru Williams https://www.amazon.com/Books-Yohuru-Williams/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AYohuru+Williams

ACLU, Defending Our Right to Learn, March 10, 2022,  https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/defending-our-right-to-learn

UCLA, The Conflict Campaign Exploring Local Experiences of the Campaign to Ban “Critical Race Theory” in Public K–12 Education in the U.S., Jan. 2022, https://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications/files/the-conflict-campaign-report

Inside Higher Ed, How K-12 Book Bans Affect Higher Education, Feb. 20, 2022 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/02/10/how-k-12-book-bans-affect-higher-education

The Guardian, US conservatives linked to rich donors wage campaign to ban books from schools,  Jan. 24, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/24/us-conservatives-campaign-books-ban-schools

Salon, First, the book-banners came for CRT and LGBTQ. Now they're censoring women's history, March 1, 2022, https://www.salon.com/2022/03/01/first-the-book-banners-came-for-crt-and-lgbtq-now-theyre-censoring-womens-history/

The Daily Poster, How Dark Money Shaped The School Safety Debate, https://www.dailyposter.com/how-dark-money-shaped-the-school-safety-debate/ , March 8, 2022