Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson said Thursday on “MSNBC Reports” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is “essentially” segregationist George Wallace because he instructed the Florida Department of Education to reject the official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course in African American studies.
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Disney’s Hulu docuseries adaptation of “The 1619 Project ” is being called out for attempting to resurrect the original New York Times series’ most contentious and debunked claim — that the Revolutionary War was fought in large part to preserve slavery.
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Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that House Republicans’ upcoming investigations were “a waste of time” and an attempt to “score political points.”
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NBA basketball icon LeBron James has taken a beating on social media after saying black people are “our own worst enemy” in response to the police brutality incident that led to the death of Tyre Nichols.
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Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker called for AP Courses that teach “black queer American” history in response to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rejecting AP classes about black Americans.
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Rapper Azealia Banks, most famous for her hit song “212,” said she feels “way safer” living in Republican-led Florida than she does in Los Angeles.
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Members of the transsexual movement want Aretha Franklin’s 1968 hit “Natural Woman” banned.
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The Celebration of Life for Diamond, born Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway, of the popular conservative social media duo “Diamond and Silk,” will be held in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. EST.
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reacted to the investigation into Fairfax County, VA and how merit scholarship notifications were handled by stating that equity policies will not help black kids succeed and are actually harmful because people who have never had to compete on merit in school will be completely unprepared to go into the real world.
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Following the proposal of San Francisco’s reparations committee to pay longtime black residents billions of dollars in reparations, Utah’s Republican 4th District Rep. Burgess Owens slammed the conversation as “condescending,” arguing it “conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”
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