Students Brittany Murphree (left) and Teresa Jones, outside the Khayat Law Center where they take a Critical Race Theory course at Ole Miss, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
As Republican lawmakers push to ban critical race theory, here’s how the class changed the mind of one conservative Mississippian.
Brittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states.
