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Texas Tech sued for suppressing Black, LGBTQ teaching

7/9/2026

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  • Groups sued Texas Tech University System in El Paso to block memoranda suppressing Black history and LGBTQ content.
  • The directives force faculty to disclose and get approval for material about race, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Professors say the policy blocked teaching Plato’s *Republic*, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s *Between the World and Me* and lessons in Lubbock.
  • Plaintiffs seek an order declaring the rules, which violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments, unconstitutional.