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Stephen Kearse

Stephen Kearse is the copy editor of Stateline. He previously worked as a production editor for Institute of Physics Publishing, and has contributed arts criticism and reporting to The Nation, The New York Times.

GOP Lawmakers Intensify Effort to Ban Critical Race Theory in Schools

By: - June 14, 2021

In April, Cheryl Harris, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, noticed an uptick in citations of her work. Sort of. “My inbox started being flooded with very bizarre and rabid emails and voicemails attributing things to me that I’ve never said,” she recalled in a phone interview. “I’ve been in this […]