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There s a new push in Congress to revive a signature program from the New Deal: The Federal Writers Project.
The bill was introduced last week by L.A. Representative Ted Lieu, and would provide 900 full-time jobs to underemployed writers and journalists to document the unique time we re living in. The economy was different, but the sense of crisis in America was quite similar,” said David Kipen, referring to the 1930s New Deal era. Kipen the founder and co-director of the
Libros Schmibros Lending Library in Boyle Heights was an advocate for bringing the Federal Writers Project back.
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When I was growing up in Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston, my classmates and I took Texas history twice, in the fourth and seventh grades. We learned about Texas’s history in the United States, its previous existence as a republic, and its time as a province of Mexico. Among other things, we were exhorted to “remember the Alamo” and “remember Goliad,” famous events in Texas’s fight for independence from Mexico. Some other aspects of the state’s history were less covered. I didn’t need school lessons to tell me that Black people had been enslaved in Texas, but in the early days of my education, the subject was not often mentioned.