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29 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
And there it is.
Seriously, this is not some Twitter rando.
Some of you would like to think that this type of explicit racism has been banished from educated and polite society. It has not been. People had just learned to keep it to themselves.

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18 May
I am thrilled to announce that Donovan Thomas, EIC of The Hilltop at @HowardU, is our very first @IBWellsSociety investigative intern. He will be interning with the @nytimes and is exactly the type of student our industry should be investing in. nytco.com/press/our-ida-…
Also, we have other @IBWellsSociety opportunities with deadlines approaching. We are still accepting applications for an investigative internship with @propublica
And we are accepting applications for our @IBWellsSociety Data Institute, which is a transformative training opportunity that we offer for NO COST.
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3 May
I would implore those who are reporting on the anti-1619 Project bills as some politics-only story to read, especially, DuBois's final chapter in "Black Reconstruction" called "The Propaganda of History."
"We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans...But are the reasons of courtesy and philanthropy sufficient for denying Truth?"
If "we are going to use history for our pleasure and amusement, for inflating our national ego, and giving us a false but pleasurable sense of accomplishment, then we must give up the idea of history either as a science or as an art using the results of science..."
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30 Apr
I'm really over defending #1619Project but I must correct some glaring inaccuracies in this @politico piece. 1) The project does not argue "our democracy" was founded in 1619. 2) The Pulitzer Center that created the curriculum is completely unaffiliated with the Pulitzer Prizes.
3) The Pulitzer Center DOES NOT AWARD THE PULITZER PRIZE. That'd be Columbia Univ. 4)The project does not argue that the Am Revolution "was fought over slavery," but it does argue if you've read it, based off of extensive scholarship, that slavery was a primary motive for some.
5) There is no "soon schools started saying they would create curriculum." The curriculum was released the same time as the project. It's just many of you did not pay attention until critics started talking about it.
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13 Apr
I am so honored to reveal the covers of the first #1619Project books: THE 1619 PROJECT: A NEW ORIGIN STORY, which dramatically expands the original project, & the children's picture book BORN ON THE WATER, both to publish by @OneWorldLit Nov. 16. Info at 1619books.com
Edited by myself, @ilenasilverman @jakesilverstein
@caitlinroper, "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," has expansions of original essays +7 amazing new essays by esteemed historians @marthasjones_ @ProfCAnderson
@DorothyERoberts @DrIbram @AntheaButler @TiyaMilesTAM
The #1619project book includes a collaboration between sisters and intellectual powerhouses historian Leslie Anderson and legal scholar Michelle Alexander. And significant expansion of my essay on democracy & a preface that addresses some of the central criticism of the project.
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26 Mar
Very excited to announce the @IBWellsSociety is sponsoring several investigative reporting internships this summer targeted towards HBCU students and students from other under-represented groups. The first amazing opportunity is to intern on the investigations desk @nytimes !
To apply, you must be a member of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting (@IBWellsSociety) and you must be interested in pursuing journalism as a career. It is rare that newspaper interns get attached to investigations desks, but ours are specifically investigative.
We are specifically targeting students who normally would not get an opportunity such as this @nytimes, so please do not count yourself out. With that said, you must bring your A-game because we expect a lot of applicants for a small numbers of slots.
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17 Mar
Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens
Even as this country was recruiting Chinese men to come do the labor white workers would not, they barred Chinese women from entering the U.S. in order to ensure the men would not settle and start families in America.
Then this nation passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to prohibit Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. altogether. This nation's most egregious racist laws and racist Supreme Court rulings targeted Black and Chinese people because of the believe both were unassimilable.
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