Tag: ‘1619 Project’

Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel Is the Aggressor.

Commentary When you meditate for a moment on what the Left expects honest and decent people to believe, you confront the world of absurdities and lies in which we live. The Left demands we believe and announce that men menstruate and give birth, and that it is in no way unfair to girls and women…


Teachers’ Union Head Defends Teaching of ‘1619 Project,’ Critical Race Theory in Schools

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten on Thursday defended The New York Times’ controversial “1619 Project” and critical race theory, saying their opponents have no idea what they are actually about. During an interview with Black News Channel, Weingarten was asked about how black and Hispanic students returning to classrooms deal with an…


Governor Noem Signs Pledge to Restore ‘Patriotic Education’ in Schools

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said she signed a pledge this week that aims to restore “patriotic education” as liberals push critical race theory in the school curriculum. Republicans like Noem have criticized the race curriculum for sowing division and hate, and teaching anti-American values to students. In a Twitter post earlier this week, Noem said she is…


American History Is Being Falsified to Sow Political Division: Mary Grabar

Mary Grabar, author of the upcoming book “Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America,” told Epoch TV’s Crossroads program that the controversial 1619 Project skews American history for divisive political ends. The 1619 Project attempts to cast the Atlantic slave trade as the dominant factor in the founding of America, rather than…


McConnell Urges Biden Administration to Drop ‘Divisive, Radical’ 1619 Project From Grant Programs

Thirty-seven Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday penned a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging him to remove the “1619 Project” from federal grant programs, arguing it skews American history for divisive political ends. “Our nation’s youth do not need activist indoctrination that fixates solely on past flaws and…


1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones to Teach Journalism at University of North Carolina

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the leading author of the New York Times’ highly controversial 1619 Project, will be teaching journalism at the University of North Carolina (UNC) this summer. While remaining at the New York Times, Hannah-Jones will join the faculty at the UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media in July as a Knight Chair…


Biden Admin Promotes ‘1619 Project’, Critical Race Theory in Proposed K-12 Education Rule

The Biden administration is seeking to prioritize funding education programs that incorporate the ideas of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi into their teaching of U.S history and civics. In a proposed new rule released April 19, the Education Department outlined new priority criteria for a $5.3 million…


Why Woke History Is Not the Answer

Wilfred Reilly The United States may be the first country in history to tell a “noble lie” about its past that makes that past look worse, not better, than it actually was. For certain, the premodern history of the United States included a great deal of barbaric, uncivilized behavior: the conquest of Native American tribes,…


New York Times Shows Need for ‘Reality Czar’

Commentary When I first heard that someone was calling for the Biden administration to establish a “reality czar” to weed out “misinformation,” I thought it must have appeared in our paper of record. I mean, of course, The Babylon Bee, the place where satire meets and then overtakes reality. I looked, but it wasn’t there….


Arkansas Bill to Ban 1619 Curriculum in Schools Fails in Republican-Led Committee

A Republican bill seeking to ban the teaching of the revisionist 1619 curriculum in Arkansas was rejected on Tuesday by a state legislative committee. House Bill 1231 would restrict state funding from going to Arkansas’s public schools that teach a curriculum based on the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which portrays the United States as…