Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor emerita with the School of Education and the former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is featured in an Al Jazeera segment that is headlined, “Are conservatives trying to erase and rewrite U.S. history?”
Interviewer Marc Lamont Hill for Al Jazeera’s “Up Front” program looks at conservatives’ negative responses to the teaching of Black history and critical race theory.
Ladson-Billings, who is also the former president of the National Academy of Education, speaks on what happens when the history and experiences of Black and Brown people are erased from what we teach future generations.
“The U.S. has been a place that has always participated in the censorship of certain ideas. … The idea of restricting this knowledge or just restricting this information is not new to the U.S. and it’s always about power and control,” Ladson-Billings says in the interview.
To learn more, watch the full segment on YouTube.