US Department of Education hangs Charlie Kirk banner outside DC building
US Department of Education hangs Charlie Kirk banner outside DC building
US Department of Education hangs Charlie Kirk banner outside DC building
Banner has sparked criticism as Kirk was a polarizing figure who made incendiary and often racist and sexist comments
The US Department of Education has hung large banners outside its building in Washington DC, including one featuring an image of the late far-right commentator, Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, who was shot and killed last September while speaking at a campus event a Utah Valley University, co-founded the conservative non-profit organization Turning Point USA, which advocates for and promotes conservative politics among young people, particularly on college campuses.
Photos show that Kirk’s image has been displayed on the Department of Education building alongside banners honoring Catharine Beecher, a prominent 19th-century US educator and advocate for women’s education, and Booker T Washington, an influential educator and writer who championed educational opportunities for Black Americans in post-civil war America and became the first principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School in Alabama, now Tuskegee University.
A banner next to the three figures reads: “Empowering our States to tell the Stories of our Heroes in American Education.”