CRT is Just the Beginning, Charlene Carruthers Tells Wisconsin Teachers

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has an ongoing advanced training series for teachers on critical race theory.

In February, DPI brought in Charlene Carruthers for its equity webinar series to talk about social transformation. Carruthers is a community organizer and PhD student at Northwestern University who specializes in “interrogating historical conjunctures of Black freedom-making post-emancipation and decolonial revolution, Black governance, Black feminist and queer theory,” according to her website.

Although Carruthers’ life is dedicated to that work, she claims she’s not sure what people mean when they refer to CRT.

“I’m a black studies scholar, I cannot tell- I think could tell you what critical race theory is, and I can tell you for sure it is not the most radical thing to come out… ha! Wait until you hear what we really think, what we really believe in!”