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The UGA Women’s Softball team will take on number 1 ranked Oklahoma Sooners in the College Softball World Series on Saturday. Because of the tournament’s double elimination format, this will be a win or go home game for both teams.

Yesterday, both universities lost their opening games, with Oklahoma getting upset by unranked James Madison, and UGA falling to Oklahoma State.

The state Board of Education overwhelmingly approved a controversial resolution that, opponents say, would ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. The 11 – 2 vote came after Board members spent around an hour discussing the five-page resolution on a conference call that was also livestreamed.

Critical Race Theory has been facing challenges recently. Dr. Maria Len-Rios is a professor and associate dean at UGA’s Grady College. She explains what the academic movement is.

“Critical Race Theory, at its core, is about equal justice,” according to Lin-Rios. “It asks us to be curious about the relationship between different power structures that we have created in society that create racial inequalities. So it asks us to consider and critique if our laws, the rules in society, or the policies that we have keep inequality in place.”