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The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation Wednesday that bans 鈥渃ompelled speech鈥� in hiring for state agencies and creates a list of beliefs that cannot be promote in state government workplaces. Some lawmakers have previously equated those same concepts to 鈥渃ritical race theory.鈥�

In North Carolina, within the past year, people in some local districts are pushing to remove books from schools that focus on gender identity and racially sensitive subjects. This summer, 吉彩网网站 Youth Reporter William Townsend talked to teens in the Triangle who were directly impacted and spoke out against book bans in their communities.

A conservative campaign to ban certain books from schools is prompting other parents to push back. The issue is often framed as the latest "culture war" battle, but some see democracy itself at stake.

Teachers have long sought ways to deliver a complete version of U.S. history that engages their young students and includes contributions by people of color. They have been reenergized after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd to take different approaches in the classroom that would challenge an education system many argue doesn鈥檛 allow for critical thinking and forces a narrow worldview.

Hannah-Jones said the left hasn鈥檛 gotten 鈥渕ad enough鈥� in opposing the 鈥渃ulture war that has been contrived by the right wing鈥� that has led to laws banning schools from teaching things such as her 1619 Project.

North Carolina Republicans are moving forward with a plan to limit how teachers can discuss certain racial concepts in classrooms. State Senate leader Phil Berger says his chamber will advance a measure seeking to ban the promotion of critical race theory in K-12 public school classrooms.