Amid a flurry of bills nationwide that seek to ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools, a mistake in one such proposal in Virginia stood out.
A Republican legislator in Virginia who campaigned against critical race theory introduced a bill that incorrectly said the Lincoln-Douglas debates were between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Update:On Friday, the Commonwealth of Virginia Division of Legislative Services published a news release explaining that House Bill 781 contained "a historical error inserted during the drafting process by the