{"id":53132,"date":"2023-08-24T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=53132"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:58:16","slug":"prof-james-mccarty-quoted-in-usa-today-about-teaching-black-history-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-james-mccarty-quoted-in-usa-today-about-teaching-black-history-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. James McCarty quoted in USA Today about teaching Black History in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a><em>\u2019<\/em><em>s <\/em><em>article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2023\/08\/23\/black-history-censorship-getting-worse\/70348173007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black history is under attack across US from AP African American Studies to &#8216;Ruby Bridges&#8217;<\/a><\/em><em>\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/3781960001\/alia-wong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alia Wong<\/a>, featuring a quote by Assistant Clinical Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/james-mccarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James McCarty<\/a>, published on August 23, 2023.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" dir=\"null\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">What would MLK Jr. do?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">James McCarty, a theologian, ethicist and professor of conflict transformation at Boston University who has written about and researched King extensively, said lessons about the civil rights hero and his era have been sanitized for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But the growing boldness of efforts to whitewash lessons is something McCarty said he hasn\u2019t seen before. Certain people are seeking to remove everything that may cause discomfort, he said, yet \u201ca good educational practice is to make people uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" dir=\"null\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2023\/08\/23\/black-history-censorship-getting-worse\/70348173007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from USA Today\u2019s article \u201cBlack history is under attack across US from AP African American Studies to &#8216;Ruby Bridges&#8217;\u201d by Alia Wong, featuring a quote by Assistant Clinical Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation James McCarty, published on August 23, 2023.\u00a0 &#8230; What would MLK Jr. do? James McCarty, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,202,203],"tags":[194,401,398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53135,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132\/revisions\/53135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}