South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is imploring universities in her state to not include critical race theory or The New York Times’ “1619 Project” in their curricula.
The Republican governor asked the South Dakota Board of Regents, in a letter dated May 24, to ban universities from promoting or advancing either critical race theory, which heavily draws on Marxism and earlier critical theory, or the “1619 Project,” which has been panned by several university professors for claiming that the United States was founded on racist principles and the American Revolution was fought to preserve the institution of slavery.
