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Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

The media’s framing of measures like Florida’s African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality

The Guardian - US

With ‘The 1619 Project’ streaming on Hulu, Black History Month kicks off with a powerful message

Nearly 50 years ago, “Roots” told the African American story. “The 1619 Project” picks up where author Alex Haley left off.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hulu's 1619 Project Docuseries Peddles False History

The first episode paints an enslaver, plantation master, and Royalist autocrat as a leading and even celebrated agent of emancipation.

Reason

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Texas Republicans against “critical race theory” win seats on the State Board of Education, strengthening its GOP majority

The board is responsible for dictating what Texas’ 5.5 million students are required to learn in the state’s public schools.

The Texas Tribune

Broken News review: Ex-Fox News editor has broadsides for both sides

Chris Stirewalt helped call Arizona early and right, enraging Donald Trump. He has harsh words for the US media in general

The Guardian - US

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson backs off his call to stop teaching science in elementary school

RALEIGH, N.C. — When North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson spoke on education at a round-table event Tuesday night in downtown Durham, he didn’t publicly broach a topic likely to have been on many attendees’ minds: a call in his upcoming book for eliminating science and history from the first-…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes

As a historian in the age of the 1619 Project and the debates over “critical race theory,” I find many of the audiences I address fall into one of two camps. Some celebrate American exceptionalism and resist dwelling on horrors like slavery or settler colonialism. Others primarily see a centuries-long…

Los Angeles Times

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'1619 Project' journalist lays bare why Black Americans 'live sicker and die quicker'

Linda Villarosa says bias in the health care system and the "weathering" affect of living in a racist society are taking a serious toll on African Americans. Her new book is Under the Skin.

WEKU

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

Reason

The "race-obsessed liberal" nightmare

Writer Wajahat Ali stopped by "Salon Talks" to discuss his new book, incarceration, Ukraine and white privilege

Salon

Race-based questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘mirrors’ experience of Thurgood Marshall

America’s first Black justice was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 1967 but some question how much has changed, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

Nikole Hannah-Jones says it was ‘badge of honor’ that Cruz cited 1619 Project in Jackson hearing

DALLAS — New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has become the face of the much-talked about the 1619 Project, happened to be in Sen. Ted Cruz’s home state Tuesday, the day he negatively cited her work during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing in D.C. for Judge Ketanji Brown…

Tribune News Service

Hearing for court nominee Jackson veers into hot-button topics

WASHINGTON — Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday rolled unscathed through a marathon day of questioning for her nomination to the Supreme Court, as some of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent time on outside issues peripheral to her qualifications.

Tribune News Service

Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing veers into hot-button topics - Roll Call

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson spent much of her first marathon day of hearings fielding questions unrelated to her judicial record.

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The 1619 Project audiobook by Nikole Hannah-Jones review – reframing US history

Slavery and the Black experience are at the heart of these essays, poems and fictional works, read by the authors, from Yaa Gyasi to Wesley Morris

Chicago Tribune

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ controversial Chicago appearance pushes words of a more ‘radical’ MLK back to the forefront

CHICAGO -- Going into her Martin Luther King Jr. holiday speech at the Union League Club this month, “1619 Project” journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones stepped to the podium knowing her words wouldn’t be welcome by at least some club members critical of her famed history project with The New York Times.

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