A group of students and educators has filed a complaint challenging an Oklahoma law that restricts teaching about race and gender, in what the American Civil Liberties Union calls the first federal lawsuit to challenge such a statewide ban
The suit -- backed by the ACLU, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Oklahoma state conference of the NAACP and the American Indian Movement Indian Territory -- seeks to block enforcement of the law it says inhibits free speech and education of complete history through the framework of critical race theory.
1775 by avoiding terms such as 'diversity' and 'white privilege,' while administrators have simultaneously acknowledged that 'no one truly knows what means or can come to agreement on its meaning,'" the lawsuit says.State Rep. Kevin West, who authored HB 1775, told CNN the complaint is"full of half-truths" and"blatant lies."The state flag flies at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City in 2018.
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