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On July 13, the Governing Board of California Community Colleges (CCC) voted to approve two new requirements—one adding ethnic studies as a graduation requirement for students seeking an associate’s degree and another mandating the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and anti-rac…

By giving unwarranted emphasis to a small, ideologically driven group opposed to any disagreements over a specific type of ethnic studies, the article conveniently ignores three important facts.

Trustees said their aim Tuesday was to have an open, transparent dialogue on California’s new ethnic studies curriculum — but passions among opponents ran high.

As the discussion on critical race theory continues across the country, several organizations are trying to keep the latest radical, toxic, and Marxist infiltration from the classrooms of California.

We must hold policymakers accountable, not to a political agenda, but to our students who have been failed by a long history of policy errors and systemic incompetence.

The bill would promote “neo-Marxist ideologies” and “indoctrinate students into narrow political beliefs and political activism,” groups argue.

A group rallied outside of the Poway Unified School District headquarters during a board meeting Thursday to protest new courses that will be offered to students in the fall.

Claim PUSD is teaching ‘critical race theory’

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A rally was held today by parents and others in the community to oppose San Diego Unified School District’s proposed ethnic studies program, also known as Critical Race Theory. The “Californians for Equal Rights” foundation has called for action, along with San Diego Unified paren…

Mary Margaret Olohan A parent-led rebellion against Critical Race Theory is storming school boards across the country and demanding accountability for

“If the district is really about uniting the kids, then get this course out of the way.”

A collection of nonprofits in California filed a civil rights complaint last week alleging discrimination against San Diego’s largest public school district for

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), along with its five partner organizations, filed a formal discrimination and civil rights violation complaint against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) regarding unlawful, discriminatory critical race training of teachers and employees. Th…

Former NFL player Eugene Chung claims he was told that he was 'not really a minority' when interviewing for a coaching job this offseason

CRT101 at Liberty Hall, Franklin TNSpeakers:Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuckDr. Wenyuan Wu @wu_wenyuanMother of 2nd Grade Student @Dear_Mr.GoldenDr. Beth Meyer…

California State Board of Education recently approved the high school ethnic study curriculum, which incorporates critical race theory in multiple subjects. …

Why Ellen failed & Critical Race Theory Panel GUESTS: Dr. Wenyuan Wu and Sam Hoadley Brill & MIC DROP: Ricky Gervais vs Chris Rock

I spoke with Wenyuan Wu about her work with the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, their work in defeating Prop 16 and now their push for Civil Rights…

The mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16, which took the lives of six Asian women among the …

Wenyuan Wu: “A cheap reboot in the woke camp is to dissociate their ground efforts from CRT. This unsolicited reaction is a non-denial denial and a demonstration of our effectiveness.”

A comprehensive analysis of the support of more than 100 university scholars and academics found the claims are wholly unsubstantiated.

A Daily Wire (DW) investigation states that they found the “Stop AAPI Hate” movement as having ties with a far-left group that’s reportedly pushing policies that are also anti- Asians.

Directrice exécutive de l’association Californiens pour l’égalité des droits, Wenyuan Wu voit cette victoire comme le signe d’un changement profond à l’œuvre dans l’opinion, mais qui se heurte à la résistance de puissants groupes de pressions formés par les médias, des…

The rising tide of crimes against Asian Americans has motivated many to engage in political activism. However, politically active Asian Americans have bifurcated into two camps: woke elites and everyone else.

A collection of California nonprofits filed a civil rights complaint last week alleging discrimination against San Diego’s largest public school district over its embrace of the controversial “critical race theory.”

The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) has drafted a plan that would incentivize private business owners to …

At least two journalists who worked for Chinese state-controlled media came to America as visiting students and became organizers for a progressive activist group behind the "Stop AAPI Hate" movement, running outreach efforts to shape the political opinions of first-generation Chinese-Amer…

President of Californians For Equal Rights: “this is one of the best countries in treating people equally and giving everyone a fair chance to succeed.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom has picked a new attorney general for the state. But the nominee is known …

Earlier this month, the Legal Insurrection Foundation (LIF), in collaboration with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, offered an eye-opening webinar.

Horrific headlines have recently proliferated across social media and the news industry depicting Asian Americans as victims of …

The legacy media has a new narrative: that Asian-Americans are the victims of systemic racism fueled by white supremacy, brothers-in-arms with black Americans in a struggle against an oppressive country.

I was so happy and not a little surprised to see printed this Opinion piece, “Identity politics does more harm than good,” March 21, by Wenyuan Wu, as it certainly doesn’t fit the dominant politica…

This addiction to examining all social issues through the prism of race is harmful.

Glenn reads from an article in the Wall Street Journal, “The Woke ‘Model Minority’ Myth” by William McGurn, which explains how Asian-Americans either are dismissed by the far left OR ‘sacrificed at the altar of equity” because they undermine the progressive idea of white, systemic racism that prevents all others from achieving success…

For progressives, Asian-American achievement is an embarrassment.

Lately, we at the National Association of Scholars have been reminded of this simple truth: what starts in academia doesn’t stay there. As the old adage goes, “culture is downstream of campus.” If it did stay there, we could leave the ivory tower in a self-contained quarantine while ignoring most of…

I spent my early years believing in a euphonious lie that modern China was beautifully multicultural, with all its 56 ethnic groups living as one family in utter adoration of the motherland. This patriotic belief, consolidated through years of Marxist and Maoist training, was slightly shaken when I …

When we divide our education, media, and legislation based on race and other immutable identities, we become more vulnerable to hatred and self-hate.

San Francisco’s Board of Education voted unanimously last October to set aside longstanding merit-based admissions at Lowell High School for one year. This decision was allegedly due to the pandemic, but the board had a bigger target in mind. As Katy Grimes now reports in the California Globe, the b…

Three organizations that have for several months been raising concerns about the corrupt development of California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, today called on state officials to investigate further unethical and potentially illegal activities by the curriculum drafters. “We are writing to exp…

San Francisco’s controversial Board of Education voted this week to end merit-based admission to Lowell High School, a top academic high school, and the

Californians for Equal Rights executive director Wenyuan Wu joins to talk about an anti-Asian discrimination case just dropped under the Biden administration and California’s proposal to teach a critical race theory-based ethnic studies curriculum to K-12 students.

On Feb. 3, the Biden administration dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that alleged the Ivy League school was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. The Californians for Equal Rights (CFER) called the DOJ’s decision “unsubstantiated,” “a systematic roll back of civil rights protections,” and that it “has committed great injustice to the American people with its acquiescence to race preferences.”

Californians for Equal Rights is criticizing President Joe Biden’s choice for Deputy Secretary of Labor, who they say did not solve the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD) fraud problem.

The Irvine City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in city hiring and contracting. Frank Xu of CFER talks about the nature and implications of this resolution.

Research shows however that racial preference policies create a mismatch of academic qualifications between minorities receiving preferences and the rest of their entering class, and the academic disparities continue throughout college.

Prop. 16 was defeated, even by liberal California, 57.23% to 42.77%. Izumi noted that Prop. 16 was campaigned against and defeated largely by Asian Americans, who merely wanted to prevent public universities from discriminating against Asian applicants with higher scores, instead favoring lower-scoring minorities. But now they have to fight for this.

In a letter to the UC Board of Regents, CFER’s executive director, Wenyuan Wu argues that “Dropping empirically designed tests in UC’s process of selecting incoming students is a politicized and misguided attempt to cover up true causes behind achievement and opportunity gaps.”

For those ‘equity’ advocates, ‘equity’ is nothing more than a fashion accessory to make them look attractive, hiding the failures of Departments of Education to improve the academic outcomes of our most vulnerable students.” In California, Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights, opposes the attack on gifted students as a “race to the bottom.”

It’s not just white students in the firing line, but high performing Asian-American children, too; is it a bold move in the name of racial fairness or just an anti-intellectual assault from the ideology of critical race theory?

CFER Honorary Chair and American Civil Rights Institute founder Ward Connerly sounds off on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’

In August 1996, at the height of a 6-million-dollar campaign coalition to preserve race-based affirmative action over against Proposition 209, Dr. Shirley Weber spoke at the Million Man March statewide conference organized by Dr. Manulana Karenga for a revolutionary agenda of black empowerment. At t…

Since California is a majority-minority state, they assumed passing Proposition 16 would be a snap. They need to get out more. They’ll find Californians cannot be so easily pigeonholed.

In 1996, Californians passed by a wide margin a citizens’ ballot initiative, the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), also known as Proposition 209, that disallowed use of race and sex preferences by state and local governments in hiring, public contracting, and admissions to public universiti…

Ward Connerly for fighting a winning battle once again, defeating affirmative action and Proposition 16. Proposition 16, on the November ballot, would have repealed Prop. 209 and divided Californians by making discrimination legal in the state. Connerly put together an amazing team creating Californians for Equal Rights.

Golden State voters — and especially immigrants — overwhelmingly rejected racial preferences.

Californians rejected racial preferences even more soundly this year than in 1996. Will the Supreme Court reverse itself next?

Proposition 16, the identitarian measure aimed at reviving race-based affirmative action in California, was crushed on the November ballot by 57.2 percent of voters (over 9.4 million votes).

A majority voted against repealing the state’s ban on affirmative action.

Democrats may need to rethink their strategy as the class complexities and competing desires of Latino and Asian-American demographic groups become clear.

Almost everyone is disappointed, frustrated, or angry about the election results—Republicans, because at this writing they appear to have lost the presidency amid widespread reports of voting—er, irregularities; Democrats, because they suffered an unexpected but major shellacking in the House and ap…

Voters send a message to the Supreme Court on race-based preferences.

One of the biggest hiccups in the recent election was the emphatic 14-point defeat of Proposition 16 in deep blue California.