Baltimore, Maryland (May 2021): From speaking at the White House to speaking in the classroom, Dr. Karsonya Kaye Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., the host of Today with Dr. Kaye and an associate professor for Communication and African and African American Studies is known for having an informed opinion about issues that are happening within Baltimore City and around the country. Passionate, edgy, and unapologetic, Dr. Kaye is known for being deeply engaged with the community from meeting monthly with the members of her Itty-Bitty Fan Club (listeners under the age of 12) to hosting Coffee and Conversation talks on Zoom to writing a bi-weekly Opinion Editorial column for the AFRO. She also finds a way to engage her audience by challenging them to think deeply about political, social, and cultural issues sometimes with humor, sometimes with sadness, but always with an ear that bends toward the truth. Dr. Kaye is always looking for ways to make connections and have conversations that matt
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Marc Lamont Hill for an interview on
Black News Tonight earlier this week. When pressed for direct reasoning for his stance on banning critical race theory from schools, the conversation grew intense.
Jones, a former Democrat and current Republican who is currently a candidate in the GOP primary for Georgia’s 2022 gubernatorial election, said that he would ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools if given the change.
“On Day One, through executive order, I will immediately instruct the Georgia Department of Education to prohibit the teaching of Critical Race Theory within our public schools,” he tweeted. “It’s time for our schools to stop teaching our kids to hate America.”
May 5, 2021
Tennessee teachers will be restricted from discussing systemic racism with their students or lose state funding if legislation approved Wednesday becomes law.
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The Senate voted 25-7 for the ban one day after the House easily passed the bill along partisan lines in Tennessee s GOP-controlled legislature, following several days of fiery debate.
A spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Bill Lee did not immediately respond when asked if he would sign the bill into law.
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Tennessee becomes the latest state on the verge of limiting the depth of classroom discussions about inequality and concepts such as white privilege as part of a conservative backlash to America s reckoning over racism.