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.
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