Linda McMahon unsure if teaching Black history flouts Trump’s anti-DEI policy

Education secretary said ‘if you’re giving facts on both sides’ of Tulsa race massacre and Ruby Bridges, it wouldn’t be DEILinda McMahon, the education secretary, said Wednesday she is unsure if teaching students about two of the most notorious racist episodes in US history would fall foul of the Trump administration’s onslaught against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).Testifying before the House of Representatives’ education and workforce subcommittee, McMahon appeared uncertain of her facts when confronted by Summer Lee, a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania. Lee asked her about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and Ruby Bridges, a civil rights workers who as a six-year-old, braved a screaming mob to become the first Black child to attend a previously all-white school. Continue reading...

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