baldwin, franz fanon, audre lorde, bell hooks, june jordan, angela davis, alice walker, manning marable, ta-nehisi coates, michelle michelle alexanderÉ crenshaw, barbara ransby, roderick ferguson, and two of our guests today -- e. patrick johnson and keeanga yamahatta taylor. the new curriculum was released wednesday on the first day of black history month. this all comes just weeks after florida's republican governor ron desantis threatened to ban the ap black studies class in florida schools. florida's education department said the course "lacks educational value." florida had raised concern about six points in the curriculum -- black queer studies, intersectionality, movement for black lives, black feminist literary thought, the reparations movement, and black struggle in the 21st century. while several of those topics have been removed as required parts of the new ap curriculum, the college board maintains the final decisions to revise the curriculum were made in december before governor desantis said he was banding the class. ucla professor robin d.g. kelley, whose writings were also removed from the required curriculum, says -