South Carolina High Schools Can Keep Antiracism Book Off Shelves

A National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter lost, for now, its court fight to force a South Carolina school district to reshelve a young adult book that chronicles “the history of racist ideas in America.”

Six high school students and their parents, who joined the Pickens County branch of the NAACP, haven’t shown they suffered a “concrete curricular injury” caused by the school district’s removal of “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” from their English classrooms, said Judge Jacquelyn D. Austin of the US District Court for the District of South Carolina. She granted the district’s dismissal motion, ...