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when he banned, from public high schools, an advanced placement course

on <a href="https://www.alternet.org/send/desantis-ap-history/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">African-American studies</a>. That controversy continued to rage on when DeSantis, in late January, visited the <a href="https://www.alternet.org/ron-desantis-teachers-2659307349/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Union League of Philadelphia</a> to receive its gold medal award and was greeted by <a href="https://6abc.com/union-league-of-philadelphia-florida-governor-ron-desantis-leagues-gold-medal-abraham-lincoln/12730511/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">a crowd of angry protesters</a>

that included local Democratic officials such as Pennsylvania State

Sen. Vincent Hughes and Philadelphia City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The

protesters argued that in a city that is about 41 percent

African-American, the Union League shouldn’t be giving a prestigious

award to someone who had just attacked a perfectly legitimate <a href="https://www.alternet.org/a-deeper-civic-purpose-author-explains-why-ron-desantis-views-on-black-studies-are-wrong/" target="_self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Black studies course</a>

(the first recipient of that award was President Abraham Lincoln back

in 1863). Liberal Philadelphia Inquirer opinion columnist Jenice

Armstrong, in her <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/union-league-ron-desantis-award-20230124.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">January 24 column</a>, angrily declared, “Don’t invite me to anything else at the Union League of Philadelphia ever again. I mean it.”</font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But

despite all the blowback DeSantis has received, the College Board is

now offering a different advanced placement curriculum on

African-American studies — one that, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">New York Times reporters Anemona Hartocollis and Eliza Fawcett</a>, has been “stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives.” </font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/a-deeper-civic-purpose-author-explains-why-ron-desantis-views-on-black-studies-are-wrong/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked"><strong>‘A deeper civic purpose’: Author explains why Ron DeSantis’ views on Black studies are dead wrong</strong></a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">article published by the NY Times on February 1</a>,

Hartocollis and Fawcett explain, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The College Board purged the names of

many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory,

the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically

fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum.

<b>And it added something new: ‘Black conservatism’ is now offered as an

idea for a research project.”</b></span></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeSantis’ attack on the AP course, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">according to the Times reporters</a>,

“turned out to be the prelude to a much larger agenda” that also

includes “a proposal to overhaul higher education that would eliminate

what he called ‘ideological conformity’ by, among other things,

<b>mandating courses in western civilization.”</b></font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In another red flag,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">Hartocollis and Fawcett report</a>,

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> “the College Board faced the possibility of other opposition: more than

two dozen states have adopted some sort of measure against critical

race theory,</span> according to a tracking project by the <a href="https://crtforward.law.ucla.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School</a>.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/ron-desantis-black-history-indoctrination/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Ron DeSantis claims he banned teaching Black history because it includes 'indoctrination' on 'queer theory'</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read the New York Times’ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">full report at this link</a>. <em>
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