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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.
