UPDATE: College Board scrubs website to cover up deceptions about AP African American Studies course [Judd Legum, Popular Information]

• The College Board recently deleted a statement from their website defending revisions to the AP African American Studies course.
• The revisions removed lessons on Black queer studies, Black feminism, mass incarceration, reparations, and the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as important Black writers such as Kimberlé Crenshaw and bell hooks.
• The revisions tracked concerns expressed weeks earlier by the Florida Department of Education and Governor Ron DeSantis (R) who said the pilot version of the course was “political” and “lack[ed] educational value.”
• The College Board initially lied about when the revisions were made and then again in a February 11 press release, claiming there were “”no negotiations about the content of this course with Florida.””
• The College Board’s revisions appear to be politically motivated to appease right-wing critics, which has backfired as DeSantis has used the issue as a political cudgel.

Published February 16, 2023
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