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Clarence Page: College Board AP course tests our racial politics, too

Ron DeSantis stumbled into that hole in a news conference just before Black History Month, as he tried to explain why he supported his education department’ s rejection of an Advanced Placement African American Studies course created by the nonprofit College Board. Also blocked were works by Angela Davis; Kimberlé Crenshaw, a pioneer of critical race theory;...

Sometimes people who want to show you how clever they are only end up exposing their own ignorance.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stumbled into that hole in a news conference just before Black History Month, as he tried to explain why he supported his education department’s rejection of an Advanced Placement African American Studies course created by the nonprofit College Board.

State officials announced in January that they had rejected the course because

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