Legal Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw: We Must Reclaim Critical Race Theory from Right-Wing Fearmongering

We speak with pioneering scholar and activist Kimberle Crenshaw about the growing Republican effort to ban critical race theory - an academic field that conservatives have invoked as a catchall phrase to censor a variety of curriculums focusing on antiracism, sex and gender. Crenshaw has launched what she calls a counterterrorism offensive" against the Republican efforts with a summer school" inspired by the Freedom Summer movement of the 1960s. The school debunks the bothsidesism" debate Crenshaw says is upheld by mainstream media, and highlights the importance of critical race theory in building a multiracial democracy. There's no daylight between the protection of our democracy and the protection of antiracism," says Crenshaw.