School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, ind… - Nikole Hannah-Jones

I have dedicated my life’s work to excavating the modern legacy of transatlantic slavery

When politicians decided protests shouldn't happen, Black people shouldn't vote, Black children shouldn't integrate schools, they called on law enforcement to enforce their desires, even when courts had ordered compliance with these rights.

People on the right have been very afraid of a narrative that doesn't deify our founding, that actually forces us to confront it, because that leads to change. When people know better oftentimes they do better. We are seeing that now.