The African American Policy Forum’s 5th Annual CRT Summer School Series Was A Call To Action For Social Justice

Source: Jacqueline Anders / Getty Change makers from around the world convened for The African American Policy Forum’s fifth annual Critical Race Theory (CRT) Summer School series titled Freedom Summer 2024: No U-Turn on Racial Justice, held in person in Nashville, Tennessee, and online from July 28 to Aug. 2. The weeklong course included immersive breakout sessions, complemented by skills-building workshops and networking opportunities designed to inform, activate, and inspire participants on critical social justice issues.   Join us on 7/31 for our fourth plenary titled “‘Can CRT Save DEI?’: Reviving Equity and Rejecting Colorblindness.” pic.twitter.com/998AuiGMJX — African American Policy Forum (@AAPolicyForum) July 17, 2024 What was taught at the CRT Summer School? The CRT Summer School faculty, which featured prominent names such as award-winning author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, iOne’s VP of Content Kirsten West Savali and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, analyzed how miseducation about CRT had been used to undermine racial justice and explored how CRT frameworks offered crucial insights into the current backlash. In commemoration of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, Freedom Summer 2024 emphasized that on the 60th anniversary of this pivotal civil rights campaign, the exceptional classes highlighted the conservative extremists’ efforts to reverse the...