Well, good evening, everyone.

I'm Laura Coates, and this is CNN Tonight.

And look, it's really happening all across this country.

A Missouri bill that would ban critical race theory in kindergarten through 12th grade,

even though it's actually not part of the grade school curriculum.

And that same bill requiring a program to teach American patriotism.

In Florida, Rondas Head is blocking a new advanced placement course for high school students

on African American studies, saying that that course lacks educational value.

Last year, he also signed a bill that would restrict how schools can actually talk about

race with their students.

Governors and legislators, mostly on the right, waiting a kind of war on what they see

and view as so-called woke curriculum.

But other see as the, well, telling of truth and an unvarnished truth, that that of our

own American history.

And then there's the war on woke part two.

This time, it's called the word police.

In Arkansas, Governor Sarahakapi Sanders is banning and has banned the word Latin X and

all official state documents.

And you may have heard that Stanford University's IT department created a list of so-called

harmful language, including words and phrases like, you guys killing two birds with one

stone, even the word American.

Time we're going to dig into all the questions over which words you can use, which words you

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