Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says he plans to file a lawsuit against Republican Florida Gov. DeSantis over the state's rejection of an AP African American studies program.
While the College Board did not cite reasons for the plan to make changes, dustups surrounding its content were longstanding in The Sunshine State.
"This course on Black history, what’s one of the lessons about? Queer theory," DeSantis said earlier this week."Now, who would say that an important part of Black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda." A section of the course, titled"African American Studies: Movements and Methods," includes a lesson on"Black Queer Studies" that teaches students about"the concept of the queer of color critique, grounded in Black feminism and intersectionality, as a Black studies lens that shifts sexuality studies toward racial analysis," according to the syllabus.
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