Earlier this month, South Carolina teacher Mary Wood was ordered by school administrators to “cease” teaching about the history of racism after two students complained that the topic offended them.
“Students in an advanced placement language arts class at Chapin High School last spring were scheduled to read Between the World and Me, a 2015 memoir by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, recapping American racial history and its impact on his life growing up Black in inner-city Baltimore. The memoir was written in the form of a letter addressed to Coates’ teenaged son,” The State reported on June 12th.