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Critical Race Theory Explained! | First Amendment Unscripted [1]

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Date: 2023-05-10

Panelists for Critical Race Theory Explained! on First Amendment Unscripted

First Amendment Unscripted is an online speaker series sponsored by the First Amendment Museum in Augusta, Maine. In this episode of First Amendment Unscripted, panelists Francesca López, Alan Singer, and Jeremy Young discuss Critical Race Theory. Please watch!

Dr. Francesca López is the Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University. She began her career in education as a bilingual (Spanish/English) elementary teacher, and later as a high school counselor, in El Paso, Texas. Alan Singer is a professor of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership and the director for social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and a regular contributor to Daily Kos and other blogs. Jeremy C. Young is the senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America. In this role, he advances PEN America’s advocacy for free expression in educational institutions, advocates against censorious legislation and politically-motivated efforts to ban books and curricular materials, and supports academic freedom in higher education and the freedom to read, learn, and teach in K-12 schools.

Earlier First Amendment speaker programs include:

Curating Under Pressure: Museum professional Janet Marstine discusses her co-edited book, Curating Under Pressure, which examines pressures to self-censor and the curatorial responses to these pressures from a wide range of international perspectives.

Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court: Asian American rock stars Simon Tam and Joe X. Jiang, who notoriously took a First Amendment case to the Supreme Court, share their journey to Washington, DC.

Book Banning, Censorship, and the Need to Read: Historian Kenneth C. Davis discusses the long history of book banning in America and how authoritarian leaders and dictators have used censorship to consolidate power.

“Let Truth Have Fair Play”: Elihu Palmer’s Struggle for Religious Freedom: Professor Kirsten Fischer discusses her new book, American Freethinker, which follows the life and work of Elihu Palmer, a deist who challenged the religious establishment of early America.

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968: Thomas E. Ricks discusses his new book, Waging a Good War, which offers a unique perspective on the American civil rights movement, depicting it as highly disciplined and carefully planned, focusing not on “passive resistance” but on confrontational nonviolence, a much more aggressive stance.

Why We Must Defend the Free Speech Rights of Our Enemies: Nico Perrino argues that defending the free speech rights of those we disagree with is essential.

Tales from a Maine Investigative Journalist: A Reporter for America corps member, Kate Cough, shares tales of her time as an investigative reporter in Maine.

Offline Repression is Replicated Online: Content Moderation and Government Repression: Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (published with Verso Books in 2021) discuss the current tensions related to content moderation and free expression online. Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? Who determines when political debate becomes hate speech? How does this impact our identity or our ability to create communities and to protest?

Art as Activism: Indigenous Artists’ Responses to Nuclear Exposure: International Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, accidents, and uranium mining on their communities and the environment presented by Manuela Well-Off-Man, chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Brewing a Boycott: Book Talk with Dr. Allyson P. Brantley: Brewing a Boycott tells the story of one of the longest-running consumer boycotts in U.S. history, the boycott of Coors beer. From the 1950s to the 1990s, union members, progressive students, Black and Latinx activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community built powerful coalitions to challenge the alleged anti-unionism, discrimination, and conservative politics of Coors Brewing Company and the Coors family.

Hong Kong: Freedom Under Attack: Hong Kong experts Chi-Sang Poon, Michael C. Davis, and Mark Simon join a panel discussion on the situation in Hong Kong and why it matters to free people around the world

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