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Bowman, facing tough primary, touts record and his progressive views in lohud interview
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoUniversal health care. Universal child care. The Green New Deal.Slavery reparation payments for...
Chairs of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Memorial Committee Resign Over Timeline Disagreement | News |...
The Harvard Crimson· 1 day agoSmith ’94 and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Director Dan I. Byers resigned as co-chairs of...
Florida Is Keeping Its “Slavery Was a Good Thing” Social Studies Curriculum
Vanity Fair· 3 hours agoIncluding Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s then competitors for the GOP nomination, one of whom literally said, “anybody that is implying that there was an upside to slavery
Here’s what I tell teachers about how to teach young students about slavery
San Francisco Chronicle· 10 hours agoThis is how middle and high school teachers have told me they have felt over the past few years when it comes to teaching the troublesome topic of slavery. Although I work ...
Florida K-12 curriculum still will say Black people gained 'personal benefit' from slavery
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoFor another year, Florida public school students will continue to learn that Black Americans in some...
Louisiana will let public schools show right-wing group's 'edu-tainment' videos, sparking outcry
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 1 day ago“I’m certainly not OK with slavery,” the cartoon Douglass says, “but the Founding Fathers made a...
“A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand”: Deciphering Lincoln’s Warning About Civil War
Mentalfloss· 6 hours agoIn a short speech whose fame might rival that of the Gettysburg Address, the future president warned...
Ken Burns' speech was great, but why so negative about Yiddish?
The Forward· 7 hours agoAt Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts last weekend, undergraduates welcomed the acclaimed...
Sojourner Truth statue unveiled where she gave her 1851 ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech
NBC NEWS· 6 hours agoTruth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist Old...
A Book Explores the Evil of New World Slavery
Columbia University News· 2 days agoDavid Scott says that seeking to rectify such historical wrongs must recognize that they lie beyond repair. What was distinctive about the evil of the...