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Sep 07 2020
News
Trump: Schools teaching 1619 Project in curriculum 'will not be funded'
President Trump threatened to redirect funds away from public schools teaching an alternative view of U.S. history based on slavery.
In a Sunday morning tweet, Trump said the Education Department would investigate schools that seek to integrate the 1619 Project, an ongoing New York Times Magazine project that argues the American founding began the year the first slaves were sold to
Washington ExaminerMar 06 2020
Opinion
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.
In August 19 of last year I listened in stunned silence as Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for the New York Times, repeated an idea that I had vigorously argued against with her fact-checker: that the patriots fought the American Revolution in large part to preserve slavery in North America.
Hannah-Jones and I were on Georgia Public Radio to discuss the path-breaking New York Times 1619
Guest WriterMay 19 2021
News
UNC Rescinds Tenure Offer to 1619 Project Author Nikole Hannah-Jones
New York Times writer and author of the divisive “1619 Project” Nikole Hannah-Jones has lost her tenure offer at the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media following backlash over her “unfactual and biased” work.
The University of North Carolina is backing down from offering Hannah-Jones a tenured position at its journalism school, and will instead offer
Breitbart NewsSep 06 2020
News
Trump says officials will investigate whether California is using 1619 Project in classrooms
President Trump on Sunday threatened to withhold funding from California schools incorporating The New York Times’s 1619 Project in their classrooms.
"Department of Education is looking at this," Trump tweeted in response to an anonymous post claiming the Times series had been "implemented ... into the public schools" in California.
"If so, they will not be funded!" he added.
The HillJul 17 2024
News
Community responds to HarborWorks project
About 50 Islanders came out Tuesday to the Gannon and Benjamin boatyard overlooking Vineyard Haven Harbor for the first listening event in the planned redevelopment of a stretch of the waterfront on Beach Road. The new nonprofit Vineyard Lands for Our Community held the event to gather feedback and to listen to the community’s concerns as the multiple-acre project known as HarborWorks heads
The Martha's Vineyard TimesJul 12 2024
News
'Novel' deal puts $42M into Tennessee accounts for Manhattan Project cleanup projects
'Novel' deal puts $42M into Tennessee accounts for Manhattan Project cleanup projects After 15 years of negotiations between the state of Tennessee and the U.S. Department of Energy over the price tag of environmental damages stemming from the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, the two have signed a $42 million agreement to pay for restoration projects. The money, set to be deposited by the
Knoxville News SentinelJul 14 2024
News
Road construction and maintenance projects
U.S. 30 pavement repair: U.S. 30 between Interstate 75 and State Route 235 is restricted to one lane for concrete pavement repairs. • Eastbound driving lane is closed until July 16; once the driving lane is reopened, the eastbound passing lane will be closed for approximately two weeks. • Westbound passing closed July 8 for approximately three weeks. Visit the project webpage: PID 107874 U.S.
Lima Ohio