you see, music isn t just the harmony of sound. it s the harmony of human beings, of different races, genders, religions, identities, sexual orientations knowing we re different but rejecting division to find moments of joy and unity and harmony. and that s what music is all about. yes, the right s biggest nightmare. a celebration of everything they fear broadcast to an audience of millions. they can t stop it, but they surely will keep on trying. also tonight, the florida governor s efforts to whitewash history preceded very controversial changes by the college board to a proposed a.p. african american studies course. but was desantis behind the updates? kimberly crenshaw, one of the scholars expunged from the course joins me. i ll also talk to an executive with the college board. and we are on the eve of president biden s state of the union address, following a year of impressive victories. now he looks ahead to next year and increasingly likely re-election campaign
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national review. the national review actually started attacking the curriculum in september. the national review wrote this, this was september 12th, 2022. they said the courses political bias is so egregious the presence or absence of crt laws is almost beside the point. no state or school district is obligated to tolerate indoctrination of this scale. this course is wrong for our schools, governors, legislators and local education officials must act accordingly. and they talk about things like the black liberal tradition, black radical tradition need to be included. they suggest including conservative writers, they name some specifically. literally almost everything that they complained about was changed. if you look at the original framework that was put out and then you look at what they wrote, and even the specific people they cited including kimberly crenshaw, those things were moved out of the part where
and when you look at what is happening with the anti crt laws attacking schools, with the attacks on our election, we are back to an american past. and that feels familiar for many americans. and that feeds complacency as well. it does indeed, and i worry at a time like this that it is the modern democratic party. is the biden white house up for this fight, i m still not sure about the answer on that. jason stanley, ruth, eddie junior, thank you tonight, appreciate your analysis, a fascinating and important if depressive conversation, thank you. ing and important if still ahead, what we know about the russian missile attack in lviv, but first richard louis is here with the headlines. hello richard. headlines after a wildfire broke out, there in the south, south of the city, the fire forced nearly 20,000 people to flee