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1/ Before and after slavery was abolished, black Americans fought to make this country’s ideals a reality.

This week, host @al_letson sat down with @nhannahjones to discuss the @nytimes’ #1619Project.

A bit from their conversation … revealnews.org/episodes/year-…
2/ First, @nhannahjones explains how a childhood infatuation with history sharpened in high school, during a Black Studies class.
3/ The Founding Fathers knew the people they were entrapping within slavery were human beings, she writes in the lead essay of the @NYTimes’ #1619Project, but the system the Founders created ensured they wouldn’t be treated as such.

Read the essay: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
4/ “If you're not ashamed of something you don't hide it,” she says. So our Founding Fathers developed a constitution that protected the institution of slavery. Yet the word itself remained conspicuously absent.
5/ You can check out @nytimes’ full #1619Project here: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
6/ Also in the episode: @pritheworld’s @rupashenoy visits Ghana to understand how the country is dealing with its complicated relationship to slavery's history.

Her work:

pri.org/stories/2019-0…

pri.org/stories/2019-0…

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7/ Finally, host @al_letson reflects on a trip he took to Malawi as a playwright tasked with telling the story of the country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy.

He didn’t think of it as a homecoming – at first. revealnews.org/episodes/year-…
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1/ On this week’s new episode: The inside story of how Trump’s EPA is rolling back Obama-era emissions standards to replace them with something that “doesn't pass the commonsense laugh test.” revealnews.org/episodes/scutt…
2/ The highlight of EPA engineer Jeff Alson’s career was a trip to the Oval Office in July 2011. They were celebrating Obama’s clean car initiative, which aimed to nearly double fuel efficiency to more than 54 miles a gallon by 2025.
3/ When President Trump announced he would gut Obama’s standards, Alson, who spent most of the last decade working on them, said he felt “like a good chunk of my career was kinda taken away from me.”
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1/ We’re honored to have won two #OJA19 awards this weekend at @ONA. Both projects were collaborations with some of the best in the biz 💪
2/ We won The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium Newsroom for Case Cleared: How Rape Goes Unpunished in America. It was a collaboration with @newsy @propublica @PRX awards.journalists.org/entries/case-c…
3/ Case Cleared uncovered how dozens of police agencies are making rape cases look like they are solved w/o actually arresting a suspected rapist. Reporters found the tactic makes it appear that departments are better at solving rape cases than they are. revealnews.org/case-cleared/
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1/ NEWS from our ongoing battle for Silicon Valley diversity data: A bunch more tech companies – including @palantirtech & @pandoramusic – are disclosing their numbers and dropping their argument that diversity is a trade secret.

Our lawsuit: documentcloud.org/documents/6393…
2/ Background: We’re suing the U.S. Department of Labor, which collects diversity stats from federal contractors but keeps them secret. revealnews.org/blog/same-data…
3/ The government relies on arguments from companies such as @oracle, @fitbit and @box that the number of women and people of color they employ is highly sensitive info that must not be disclosed.
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1. But I repeat myself, for about the fourth time in as many years. This is for all of those -- black, white, and other -- who think white "supremacy" is a thing.

"Black people—not just those who are American—view white people in the same manner that anti-theists view God."
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Getting into the first #1619Project essay, and the author (Nikole Hannah-Jones) is both laudably writing blacks into American history and shamefully writing some inconvenient others out of it.
She really wants the white colonists to be not merely misguided, but evil. That's harder with the non-slaveholding northerners, who began and sustained the rebellion, so they disappear in her text.
"One of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."
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Black Americans need to explain what true racism is so young blacks understand. dailysign.al/315Xg87 via @WE_Williams @DailySignal
@WE_Williams @DailySignal “These are people that hate our country. If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave.”

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Bernie Sanders anti black outreach receipts here 👇🏽think it is just me? Dare to find out the truth!
In 2016 Symone Sanders went on record about the racism she received while on the campaign. While she made a point to say it wasn’t leadership those of us that worked with her know the truth but Symone didn’t want to ruin her career & be black balled
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