The Round Rock Black Parents Association mobilized against calls to remove a book on the history of racist ideas in the U.S. from the school reading list.
by and about LGBTQ people or people of color from schools has heated up, Black parents have been getting organized, pushing back against challenges to books that deal with racism and racial identity and calling on schools to reinstate previously banned books.
In Texas, where complaints about a book on the history of racist ideas in the United States led to threats to remove it from the school’s reading list, thousands of parents, teachers and community members of the Round Rock School District signed aDownload our local news and weather app for
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