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Historian David Perry: After Trump, we’ll need a truth and reconciliation commission 1619 Slavery

Historian David Perry: After Trump, we’ll need a truth and reconciliation commission

Donald Trump has responded to a public health emergency affecting the entire American public with a startling combination of ignorance, arrogance and total incompetence. His two closest advisers, Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner, are a white supremacist and real-estate plutocrat, respectively, with no expertise in public health, viral biology or…
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March 17, 2020
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/16/2020 1619 Slavery

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/16/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates…
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March 16, 2020
UNEXPECTEDLY: Seven months later, New York Times’ 1619 Project leader admits she got it wrong. “… 1619 Slavery

UNEXPECTEDLY: Seven months later, New York Times’ 1619 Project leader admits she got it wrong. “…

UNEXPECTEDLY: Seven months later, New York Times’ 1619 Project leader admits she got it wrong. “It cannot be stressed enough that Hannah-Jones’s since-corrected version of historical events was key to the entire project, the premise of which is that America was founded upon, built upon, and primarily formed by slavery.…
bubmag
March 16, 2020
Roundup Top Ten for March 13, 2020 1619 Slavery

Roundup Top Ten for March 13, 2020

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March 15, 2020
NYT clarifies a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that claimed a primary reason the US colonists fought the American Revolution was to protect slavery (Jake Silverstein/New York Times) 1619 Slavery

NYT clarifies a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that claimed a primary reason the US colonists fought the American Revolution was to protect slavery (Jake Silverstein/New York Times)

2:50 PM ET, March 13, 2020 Sara Jerde / Adweek: Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review, @nytclimate, @jennafduncan, @jbenton, @jordanlawrence, @pattyguerra, @startribune, @markmazzettinyt, @katvchrismay, @nickpistor, @foreignaffairs, @coreyhutchins, @joshsternberg, @adweek and @media_evan RELATED: John Koblin / New York Times: Discussion: Awful Announcing, New York Post, Variety, @consumersos, HuffPost, @nytimes, The…
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March 13, 2020