Critical Race Theory and The Obstruction of Black Education with Dr. Ivory Toldson (Nov 2021)

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Education has always mattered to Black people. Our enslaved ancestors risked their lives to learn what white oppressors withheld. Because those oppressors understood the important role knowledge of ones history, one's world, and oneself plays in Black liberation. Hundreds of years have gone by, and throughout them all, white supremacy has continued the work of suppressing Black education. So what can we do about it? In November 2021, Jay sat down with Dr. Ivory Toldosn. Dr. Toldson is the NAACP's national director of education, innovation, and research and has been a professor at Howard University for 16 years. Learning is the path forward, but we first have to challenge the barriers that prevent us from doing so. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference.Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes: Tareq Alani, Patrick Sanders, Leslie Taylor-Grover, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shiavon Chapman, Tabitha Jacobs, Abeni Jones, Briona Lamback, Courtney Morgan, Zain Murdock, Akua Tay, Tasha Taylor, and Darren Wallace. Producing the podcast we have Cydney Smith, who performs our narrative pieces, and Sasha Kai Parker, who also edits the show.. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The assault on education, black education, is more real than ever with the current administration,
0:06.5	with the erasure of DEI initiatives and the whitewashing of our history from our public institutions.
0:14.3	Now more than ever, it is evident that the power that education gives us is the thing that white supremacy fears the most. In 2021,
0:25.0	Jay of Push Black sat down with Dr. Ivory Tolston to talk about the critical race theory that
0:32.0	was being taught to our youths and even then the attack on the spread of that knowledge.
0:38.5	In this episode of the best of Black History a year, enjoy.
0:44.4	Music. Asada Shakur said it best.
1:01.3	No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
1:06.9	Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes if they know that knowledge will help set you free.
1:16.6	I'm Sid from Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year.
1:24.6	Educated Black people flourishing in the world has always been met with opposition.
1:30.3	You can particularly find it in every era of America's past, those overt and covert methods
1:37.3	used to suppress black education. So it's no surprise that white supremacy continues to deter our access to knowledge,
1:47.0	erasing, rewriting, or condemning histories and ideas that challenge these racist systems.
1:55.0	In the past few months, we've seen states ban critical race theory in classrooms and uphold the legacy of stonewalling
2:03.6	black education. Prioritizing and investing in education at every conceivable opportunity
2:11.6	is in the best interest of our people. And we'll talk about that today with Dr. Ivory Toltsin. A scholar, activist, and
2:21.6	servant leader, Dr. Toltsin is the National Director of Education, Innovation, and Research for the
2:29.2	NAACP. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education and as a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University, where he's been for 16 years.
2:43.0	But before Jay sits down for a great interview with Dr. Toltson, we'll hear a story about the history that's led us to this point.
2:57.1	A 15-year-old boy holds his breath. Hidden beneath the dark of night, he sprints between trees,
3:10.7	a single candle burning in the window of a plantation church. As he quietly opens the back door, he sees his mother. They're lucky to be
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