• The College Board released a revised framework for its new Advanced Placement (AP) course for African American Studies on February 1, 2021.
• The revisions address nearly all of the objections raised by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and other right-wing critics, including the removal of lessons on Black Lives Matter, the case for reparations, and queer studies.
• The College Board insists that any suggestion that politics played a role in the revisions is “a gross misrepresentation of the content of the course and the process by which it was developed.”
• In 2019, the College Board made over $1.1 billion dollars in revenue, and its CEO, David Coleman, took home more than $2.5 million in compensation in 2020.
• Nearly 600 African American Studies faculty from colleges and universities across the country signed a letter protesting DeSantis’ ban of the course in Florida, calling it “censorship and a frontal attack on academic freedom.”
Published February 2, 2023
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