AP students Alexander Leith, left, and Amelie Jamanka, right, sit in class at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School in Cambridge, MA on January 22, 2020. A Boston Globe analysis of state data found that when it comes to Advanced Placement test taking, Black students are more underrepresented in Cambridge than in any of the 13 other towns and cities bordering Boston. Last year, just nine percent of the 433 students who took AP exams in Cambridge were Black although Black students made up nearly 30 percent of the enrollment at the high school.(Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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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