Editor’s note: Nearly two dozen states (Nevada is not one of them) have passed laws designed to limit discussion of the role of race while teaching U.S. history in public schools and colleges. Often prohibiting “divisive concepts,” the laws are pushed by politicians on the right to combat what they – wrongly, usually – contend […]
Editor’s note: In February 2017, while marking African American History Month, President Donald Trump praised Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.” Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Douglass in Rochester, New […]
