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By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez Special to CalMatters In 2017, a Maya elder, Carlos Armando Dzul, took me to…

Guest Commentary: If California’s leaders want to ban Indigenous knowledge from the classroom, they should at least first learn it.

If California’s leaders want to ban Indigenous knowledge from the classroom, they should at least first learn it.

Shereen Marisol Meraji Shereen Marisol Meraji tries to find the humor and humanity in reporting on race for the NPR Code Switch team. Her stories center on the real people affected by the issues, not just experts and academics studying them. Those stories include a look at why a historically black college in West Virginia is 90 percent white, to a profile of the most powerful and most difficult-to-target consumer group in America: Latinas. Prior to her time with Code Switch, Meraji worked for the national business and economics radio program Marketplace, from American Public Media. There, sh...

I'll reality check them for you. >> they divided the kids into different races so african studies for the african-american kids, raza studies for latina kids, indian studies for the native american kids. they taught a rad ical agenda. they were teaching kids they live in occupied mexico. >> tom is incorrect when he states that students are divided into these courses. the fact is very clear these courses are open to all students. so any student of any race or ethnicity can take an african-american studies class and learn about the history of slavery and the civil rights movement. similarly they...