Marc Lamont Hill for an interview on
Black News Tonight earlier this week. When pressed for direct reasoning for his stance on banning critical race theory from schools, the conversation grew intense.
Jones, a former Democrat and current Republican who is currently a candidate in the GOP primary for Georgia’s 2022 gubernatorial election, said that he would ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools if given the change.
“On Day One, through executive order, I will immediately instruct the Georgia Department of Education to prohibit the teaching of Critical Race Theory within our public schools,” he tweeted. “It’s time for our schools to stop teaching our kids to hate America.”
Tenn. congressman defends Three-fifths Compromise We ended up biting a bitter, bitter pill that haunts us today.
Tennessee state Rep.
Justin Lafferty (R), is facing criticism for defending the Three-Fifths Compromise. The agreement was drafted during the nation’s Constitutional Convention in 1787 and classified a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining representation in Congress and tax obligations of each state.
Rep. Lafferty delivered an impassioned speech in the Tennessee General Assembly on Tuesday, during which he said the Three-Fifths Compromise was included in the Constitution “for the purpose of ending slavery” which isn’t true. Lafferty’s remarks came as he backed a Republican-sponsored bill that aims to ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools.
Arun Venugopal, a senior reporter for radio station WNYC’s Race and Justice Unit spoke to the prevalence of the problem both nationally and in NYC.
“These incidents are happening all over New York City and in Asian-majority neighborhoods as well. You see people getting shoved, spat upon, coughed at, harassed, called names and ethnic slurs,” said Venugopal. “This is a huge problem and the fact that it’s happening in places like Flushing, Queens, and Manhattan’s Chinatown is causing a lot of distress for members of the Asian American community. “
This week, yet another attack was reported on Monday after a 31-year-old Asian woman was struck in the head by a hammer in Manhattan. On Tuesday, New York Governor
Mitch McConnell issued a letter to U.S. Education Secretary
Miguel Cardona requesting that the
1619 Project be removed from education resources eligible for federal grant programs.
The letter, signed by McConnell and 38 other Republican senators, said the coronavirus pandemic damaged the United States school systems and it is now time to “strengthen the teaching of civics and American history in our schools.”
“We write to express grave concern with the Department’s effort to reorient the bipartisan American History and Civics Education programs, including the Presidential and Congressional Academies for American History and Civics and the National Activities programs, away from their intended purposes toward a politicized and divisive agenda,” the letter began.
IndieWire reports. Watch the moment via the clip below.
Daniel Kaluuya responds to a journalist who mistook him for Leslie Odom Jr. at the #Oscars and asked him: “What was it like being directed by Regina [King]?”
Gardiner took to social media on Monday to slam reports that she had confused Kaluuya to Odom, writing, “Daniel Kaluuya, I did not mistake you for Leslie Odom Jr. I’m sorry if it seemed that way. I had wanted to ask about Regina King not being nominated as a director for ‘One Night in Miami,’ and your win for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ for the community at this time.”