At Conservative Schools, Anti-Critical Race Theory Still Looms Large - Commentary

Sierra Lyons, was an Ida B. Wells Society intern on NPR's investigations team, writes:  As college students have returned to campus, anti-critical race theory efforts are in high gear, asserting that the legal academic concept poses a "threat" to conservative Christian colleges and other higher learning institutions. Fear-mongering surrounding critical race theory has been brewing in conservative and evangelical spaces for more than two years, especially since the unprecedented outpouring of support for Black life after the police murder of George Floyd.