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Sen. Tim Kaine says he confronted Trump attorney Robert Ray about ‘offensive’ 1619 project remarks 1619 Slavery

Sen. Tim Kaine says he confronted Trump attorney Robert Ray about ‘offensive’ 1619 project remarks

Sen. Tim Kaine was so taken aback when President Donald Trump's defense attorney Robert Ray criticized a New York Times series about the history of slavery during his presentation in the Senate impeachment trial that he later confronted Ray about the remarks. "To me, it seemed like an ad hominem attack on…
bubmag
January 28, 2020
A Matter of Facts 1619 Slavery

A Matter of Facts

W ith much fanfare, The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue in August to what it called the 1619 Project. The project’s aim, the magazine announced, was to reinterpret the entirety of American history. “Our democracy’s founding ideals,” its lead e…
bubmag
January 22, 2020
THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: “One of the many odd things about the New York Times‘s ‘1619 Proj… 1619 Slavery

THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: “One of the many odd things about the New York Times‘s ‘1619 Proj…

THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: One of the many odd things about the New York Timess 1619 Project on slavery is that Martin Luther King Jr is barely mentioned (ditto Frederick Douglass). This omission may not be accidental, since both Douglass and King found sou…
bubmag
January 20, 2020