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I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech,

I'm really over defending #1619Project but I must correct some glaring inaccuracies in this @politico piece. 1) The project does not argue "our democracy" was founded in 1619. 2) The

In 1894, the NYT called Ida B. Wells a "slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress" for daring to tell the truth about lynching. 100 years later she earned the Pulitzer Prize. These

Blockbuster @nytimes investigation: Trump paid $750 in taxes the year he won the presidency and zero in income taxes for 10 of the 15 previous years.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?action=click&

The framing of the #1619Project remains the same today as when we published in Aug. 2019: We acknowledged 1776 as this nation's official founding but asked readers to imagine what

The #1619Project published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most

Is it strange to anyone else that virtually none of the reporting on rising violence in US cities is making links to the economic catastrophe — job losses, evictions —

This story could have really used some contextualization on how racism and bias works. I don’t know whether Sheskey is racist or not, but he was operating within a society

Please don't tag me into patronizing threads lecturing Black people on what *we* need to do to ensure Trump does not win. Imagine telling Black people to respond "intelligently" when

My summary of Biden’s plan for Black America: It provides a litany of race-specific problems to which it offers a litany of race-neutral solutions — none of which will eliminate

Today I’ve learned the extent to which people of color whose families immigrated to America will All Lives Matter the singular experience of Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved HERE

It’s hard to believe, but one year ago today we launched the #1619project. When I pitched it, my editors asked what I hoped for the project. I said simply: That