Texas High School Suspends Its First Black Principal Over Critical Race Theory Complaints By White Parents

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Texas High School Suspends Its First Black Principal Over Critical Race Theory Complaints By White Parents

A Black principal was recently put on paid administrative leave after parents at his Texas high school complained that he was influencing critical race theory on students.

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In their introduction to Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, co-editors Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah describe W.E.B. DuBois’s half century campaign to publish an encyclopedia that would encompass the African diaspora. That introduction appears

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Ailey, Alvin (1931-1989)

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