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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: Critical Race Theory and The Obstruction of Black Education with Dr. Ivory Toldson (Nov 2021)
Description: Education has always mattered to Black people. Our enslaved ancestors risked their lives to learn what white oppressors withheld. Because those oppressors understood the important role knowledge of ones history, one's world, and oneself plays in Black liberation. Hundreds of years have gone by, and throughout them all, white supremacy has continued the work of suppressing Black education. So what can we do about it? In November 2021, Jay sat down with Dr. Ivory Toldosn.
Dr. Toldson is the NAACP's national director of education, innovation, and research and has been a professor at Howard University...