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Y’all Politics brings you a Bill of the Day from the Mississippi Legislature that just may pique your interest. Critical Race Theory has become a major concern for many parents across Mississippi, as the racially divisive narratives promoted by the educational curriculum flowing from its school of

While school board members and administrators have attempted to quell the anger associated with CRT by publicly asserting it is not part of their curriculum, that hasn’t stopped parents –

At a recent Pennsbury School Board meeting, parents and taxpayers spent 90 minutes arguing that a new racial equity policy and plan should never have been approved. The 20 who spoke out against the plan, unanimously adopted by the board on May 20, described it as part of an insidious and subversive implementation of critical race theory. “You may not be calling it ‘critical race theory,’ and are disguising it as social and emotional learning, but we are not fooled,” said school board ...

Two Pennsylvania state representatives are attempting to ban the teaching of critical race theory in the state's schools, according to a statement on June 4

Set forth the idea of universal equality, but it is the 14th amendment to our constitution in its equal protection clause that has helped bring us closer to fulfilling that foundational principle and bringing us closer to a more perfect union. all cabinet officials have a responsibility to protect the interest of all of the american people, but there is no office for which the duty to apply the law equally is greater than that of the attorney general. in my capacity as chairman of the congressio...

It required criticism in this great nation and its laws to move toward a greater sense of equality in america. we had to sit in. we had to stand in. we had to march. thats why more than 50 years ago a group of unarmed citizens, black and white, gather on march 7, 1965, in an orderly and peaceful nonviolent fashion to walk from selma to montgomery, alabama, to dramatize to the nation and to the world that we wanted to register to vote. wanted to become participants in a democratic process. we wer...

Public life, senator sessions has proven himself unfit to serve in a role as attorney general. i would not have the opportunity to testify today if not for men like john lewis who was beaten within an inch of his life in his pursuit for the right to vote for african-americans. its a shame that he must sit here and relitigate this 50 years later. we sit here as the prodigy of men and women who were bought, sold, enslaved, raped, tortured, beaten, and lynched. black people were bought as chattel a...

American democracy. i know that you do not take this responsibility lightly. before i jump into my substantive testimony, i want to address two timely issues. first, i want to express my concerns about being made to testify at the very end of the witness panels. to have a senator, a house member, and a living civil rights legend testify at the end of all of this is the equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. it is a petty strategy and the record should reflect my consternation at ...

Remain true to his message of inclusion, universal equality, then yes theres a chance. i truly feel that there is a powerful spirit at work in this man. and you cannot in the end avoid this question if youll pursue the directions that hes going. hes laying the groundwork for it. >> chris, what about the fact this pope is so popular with twitter? hes got over 7 million followers. is this now the pope who well be calling the one for the internet age? >> absolutely. my good friend michael writes fo...