AFRICAN AMERICANS/EDUCATION/STATUES: [Reporter: “Your tweets about the 1619 Project… why do you object to that being taught in schools? And do you object to slavery itself being taught in schools?”] “Yeah, so — no, I want everybody to know everything they can about our history. I’m not a believer in cancel culture, the good or […]
Tag: 1619
9/6/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/EDUCATION: “In a Sunday morning tweet, the President said the US Department of Education would investigate whether California schools are using the New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ in public school curriculum. The Pulitzer-Prize winning collection reframes American history around the date of August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America’s shores… The […]