Varying definitions of critical race theory, or CRT, have circulated in online groups, public school board meetings and dinner conversations for the last several months. Some parents who oppose the ...

How a complicated and expansive academic theory developed during the 1980s has become a hot-button political issue 40 years later. By Jacey Fortin About a year ago, even as the United States was ...

It's probably safe to say that most members of the public had never heard of critical race theory before the fall of 2020, when then-U.S. President Donald Trump launched a rhetorical war on it — or at ...

The Australian Senate yesterday voted in support of a motion calling on the federal government to reject critical race theory from the national curriculum. The motion was moved by Senator Pauline ...

It's been one year since the murder of George Floyd. Since his untimely death, the United States has seen a resurgence of a focus on civil rights and coming to grips with its history of racial ...

Since 2020, critical race theory has remained a hot topic among the public, parents, school board members, teachers and lawmakers all weighing in on the issue. In 2021, 14 states either passed ...

The concept of critical race theory, or CRT, has recently been vilified by politicians as a “radical,” “un-American,” and “racially divisive” concept. Several states have even banned schools from ...

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. This must change. We need to ...

The latest front in the culture wars over how U.S. students should learn history and civics is the concept of critical race theory, an intellectual tool set for examining systemic racism. With roots ...

Last month, Republican lawmakers decried critical race theory, an academic approach that examines how race and racism function in American institutions. "Folks, we're in a cultural warfare today," Rep ...

Sept 21 (Reuters) - "Critical race theory," a once-obscure academic concept, has become a fixture in the fierce U.S. debate over how to teach children about the country's history and race relations.