North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson has made national headlines during the 2024 Election. Follow վ's coverage of the Republican candidate for governor:
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Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is back in the headlines after an old facebook post emerged. North Carolina’s primary is less than two months away. And there is a new judge in the decades old Leandro Case. On this episode of the վ Politics Podcast, Rob Schofield and Donna King discuss some of the week’s biggest stories.
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The staunchly conservative Robinson has long been an opponent of a woman’s fundamental right to an abortion.
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In the last six months, the American Library Association has seen a spike in book challenges and bans in both school and public libraries, mostly targeting books that center on race and LGBT identity.
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The Human Rights Campaign, Equality North Carolina, prominent Democratic lawmakers and the White House have condemned the lieutenant governor's recent remarks, with some demanding his resignation.
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North Carolina Republicans sent a bill Wednesday to the state's Democratic governor that would limit how teachers can discuss certain racial concepts in the classroom.
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North Carolina Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a bill to limit how teachers can discuss certain racial concepts inside the classroom. The proposal seeks to bar educators from compelling students to personally adopt any ideas from a list of 13 beliefs. The measure passed along party lines by a 25-17 vote.
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North Carolina is one of more than two dozen states where GOP lawmakers have moved to define how racism and sexism can be taught in schools.
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Robinson made his announcement late Monday, days after he said in a video he was taking a “serious look” at a bid to succeed retiring Sen. Richard Burr.
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Synthesizing American history is not a simple exercise. What periods, figures, and narratives should emerge in public school classrooms, and who gets to decide? Republicans are decrying some educational standards as having a leftist bent, lacking patriotism. While educators, and advocates for a more complete narrative say we must trust the teachers. On this episode of The Politics Podcast teaching our complicated history to our youth.