On the Banning of Black History in Florida, and “The Crown”

On the Banning of Black History in Florida, and The Crown

On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, Robin Kelley discusses the attacks on Black Studies, and Gary Younge comments on The Crown on Netflix.

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Black history is being banned in Florida and excluded from the College Board’s recommended AP Black Studies course. On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, UCLA professor Robin Kelley comments. He’s one of the historians whose work has been targeted.

Also on this episode: The Royal Family and The Crown—you know, Queen Elizabeth, Charles and Diana, and the Netflix series about them. Gary Younge explains why he loathes the monarchy in Britain, but loved The Crown.

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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