Badenoch Accuses BBC of Promoting Critical Race Theory

Published on November 22, 2023

Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch has accused the BBC of promoting critical race theory (CRT) after one of its headlines claimed that black women were “most likely to die” of the plague in medieval London. CRT is a left-wing academic framework that originated in the United States, examining how race intersects with social structures and institutions. Critics noted that the article’s claim was based on a tenuous study from the Museum of London, which used the 675-year-old remains of 49 individuals who succumbed to the Black Death, with only nine identified as “probably” black in ethnicity. Despite over 35,000 deaths during the 14th century London outbreak, the study concluded the ethnicity of individuals as black women not through DNA analysis but by visually assessing the shape of their facial bones....

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