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Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Not Done With 'The 1619 Project'

LOADING ERROR LOADING Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones is inspired by Black people. We serve as inspiration for oppressed people all across the globe.” The decorated journalist has just released her latest project, “The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience,” a photobook that consists of original essays from “The 1619 Project” and is also brimming with gripping images and visual art …

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2 months ago

1619 Project author says 'anti-Blackness is deeply embedded in Latino cultures' after Trump Hispanic surge

Daily Mail

An author of an infamous revisionist historic work that paints the United States as racist has blamed 'anti-blackness' for Donald Trump's electoral success with Latinos. The result has surprised some, as it saw Trump increase his share of the demographic substantially since his loss to Joe Biden, when he only won 32 percent Emphatically beating Kamala Harris, the president-elect found …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Weekly Digest Of IBC Cases: 5th To 11th February 2024

Live Law

NCLAT NCLAT Delhi: Adjudicating Authority Should Grant Extension Of Time To Consider Resolution Plan Crucial To Fulfill Object Of IBC Case Title: Nimai Gautam Shah, Resolution Professional of Sintex Plastics Technology Ltd. vs. RBL Bank Ltd. Case No. : Company Appeal No.82 of 2024 The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal New Delhi, comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan, Mr. Barun Mitra, and …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Point Comfort: The little-known birthplace of African American culture

BBC

Point Comfort: The little-known birthplace of African American culture Xinhua/Alamy Each August, African cleansing ceremonies take place at Fort Monroe to help Black Americans reconnect with their ancestors Forty years after receiving an anonymous tip, one man has been working to rewrite Black history to show where and how the first Africans arrived in the British Colonies. Today, Pearson and …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

1619 Project school curriculum is blasted for downplaying Muslim conqueror's enslavement of 1,200 people and describing them as SERVANTS

Daily Mail

The excerpt, which comes from a textbook titled 'Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans', explains the life of ruler Mansa Musa Educational material from The 1619 Project has been criticized for downplaying the enslavement of thousands of people by a Muslim conqueror The 1619 Project school program has come under scrutiny for appearing to downplay a Muslim …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Past Lives,’ ‘Poor Things’ among 2024 Producers Guild Awards nominees

LA Times

Greta Lee and Teo Yoo in “Past Lives,” nominated for the Producers Guild of America’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award. “Past Lives” and “Poor Things” are among the nominees for the Producers Guild of America Awards’ Darryl F. Zanuck Award, which were announced Friday morning. See the full list of nominees below: Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Column: Ron DeSantis and the whitewashing of slavery’s horrors

LA Times

With the news in recent days so irremediably grim — what with the mainstreaming of antisemitic drivel by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the record heat wave traceable to global warming — I found myself looking desperately for a comic interlude to lift my mood. — William Allen and Frances Presley Rice, members of Florida African American History Task Force …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Afghanistan withdrawal may have left members of armed forces with ‘moral injury’

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Armed forces personnel who assisted …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ex-RNC Spokesperson Spots Major Flaw With Nikki Haley’s 2024 Video

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Tim Miller, a onetime Republican National Committee spokesperson, on Tuesday suggested Nikki Haley’s video announcing her 2024 run for president was indicative of one particular hurdle she will face on the campaign trail. Haley is “looked at skeptically by the MAGA voter” because of her flip-flopping on Donald Trump, Miller noted on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.” And …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Hyderabad was Bhagnagar, but politicians still differ

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: In the 2020 GHMC elections, one issue that almost dominated the election campaign for the civic body was the name of Hyderabad. The Nizam Government’s magazine Islamic Culture in its April 1934 edition, quoted Prof. Rai Bahadur Surya Kumar Bhuyan’s translation of a letter written by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to the Adil Shahi sultan, where the Mughal …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Tiffany Haddish flashes cute smile while stepping out in casual style for lunch in Los Angeles

Daily Mail

Tiffany Haddish flashed her cute smile as she stepped out in casual style on Tuesday for lunch in Los Angeles. Cute smile: Tiffany Haddish flashed her cute smile as she stepped out in casual style on Tuesday for lunch in Los Angeles Tiffany had her short platinum blonde hair parted on the side and accessorized with small dangling earrings and …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Oprah Winfrey and Tiffany Haddish at premiere of The 1619 Project in LA ... as show debuts on Hulu

Daily Mail

Oprah Winfrey and Tiffany Haddish were among the stars who appeared at the debut of The 1619 Project in Los Angeles on Thursday at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The latest: Oprah Winfrey, 68, and Tiffany Haddish, 43, were among the stars that appeared at the debut of The 1619 Project in Los Angeles on Thursday at the Academy …

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1 year, 11 months ago

With ‘1619,’ ‘Summer of Soul’ and ‘The Plot,’ Disney’s diverse storytelling brand is making waves

LA Times

When Oscar winner Mahershala Ali and his producing partners made the rounds last year, pitching an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s bestselling novel “The Plot,” it sparked a bidding war. “The goal is to create entertainment first, broadly accessible content for Disney from a culturally specific point of view,” said Duncan, who is also president of Disney’s young adult cable …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Hulu's '1619 Project' creator 'proud' of Ron DeSantis attacks

LA Times

When “The 1619 Project” was released 3½ years ago, the ambitious reexamination of American history sparked difficult conversations about the legacy of slavery in the United States and earned praise for its creator, New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones. “I can’t tell you how many times I watched that documentary.” “The 1619 Project” has now arrived on Hulu as …

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2 years ago

The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in January

Slate

Every month, tons of new movies and TV shows become available to stream for free for U.S. subscribers to Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and Hulu. The Underworld The Pale Blue Eye Pressure Cooker Series Premiere The Ultimatum: France Season 1 Part 2 The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker Noise Sexify Season 2 Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight Season 2 The …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Hernan Diaz, Tanaïs among winners of $50,000 Kirkus Prize

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Hernan Diaz’s novel “Trust,” a postmodern take on wealth, power and reality set in the 1920s and 1930s, has won the Kirkus Prize for fiction. The awards, presented by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews, include $50,000 cash prizes for winners in fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature. On Thursday, prize judges cited Diaz for how “he uses …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Conservative college’s curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota

Associated Press

— A few days before middle school teacher Shaun Nielsen joined a work group to develop South Dakota’s social studies standards, he got a thick package in the mail. Larry Arrn, the school’s president, even said in a speech last year that Noem had “offered to build us an entire campus in South Dakota.” That doesn’t appear to be in …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Historians Are Mad at the New York Times, Again. Should They Be?

Slate

This article was adapted from Jonathan M. Katz’s newsletter, the Racket. But the reporting goes even further, documenting that “French shareholders earned so much money that in some years, their profits exceeded the Haitian government’s entire public works budget for a country of 1.5 million people.” And as far as I can tell, the Times is the first to make …

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2 years, 10 months ago

'Born on the Water' puts the '1619 Project' into kids' hands

NPR

'Born on the Water' puts the '1619 Project' into kids' hands MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: "Born On The Water" puts Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones' "1619 Project" in the hands of young readers. HANNAH-JONES: So when I thought about that, I thought, well, the first Black child born in America, or what would become America, doesn't have any other country. …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Conservative book bans are part of GOP’s fascist turn

Al Jazeera

The bans against CRT and The 1619 Project are not just conservative or anti-progressive, but specifically anti-democratic, racist and fascist in their motivations and their effect. The same GOP politicians and pundits that attacked The 1619 Project then took Critical Race Theory – a graduate-level framework for examining the racial biases embedded in American legal, political and social institutions – …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Author reveals how the forgotten Elizabeth Stuart had her eyes on the throne

Daily Mail

Nadine Akkerman, based in the The Netherlands, who recently published her book Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts, has brought to light the portrait, which depicts Elizabeth wearing the Tudor crown He was unpopular with the British public, eventually being convicted of treason and executed - yet not everyone in King Charles I's family was so heavily frowned upon, with his …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Missouri bill would ban critical race theory in schools

Associated Press

— Missouri House lawmakers on Tuesday debated bills that would ban critical race theory in K-12 schools and give parents and guardians more control over what their children learn, an issue that likely will dominate this session. One bill, considered in the House education committee, would prohibit Missouri schools from teaching critical race theory, a framework for examining the effects …

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3 years ago

Norman Mailer is far from canceled. He’s history

LA Times

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Norman Mailer would not be pleased to be canceled in 2022. To begin at the beginning, the upstart newsletter the Ankler published a story by Michael Wolff alleging that a forthcoming collection of Mailer’s political writing had been “canceled” by his publisher due to objections by a “junior staffer” to the 1957 …

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3 years ago

The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ warning on democracy

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. The New York Times Magazine writer began this year in a protracted tenure fight with her alma mater in North Carolina …

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Not Done With 'The 1619 Project'

1619 Project author says 'anti-Blackness is deeply embedded in Latino cultures' after Trump Hispanic surge

Weekly Digest Of IBC Cases: 5th To 11th February 2024

Point Comfort: The little-known birthplace of African American culture

1619 Project school curriculum is blasted for downplaying Muslim conqueror's enslavement of 1,200 people and describing them as SERVANTS

‘Past Lives,’ ‘Poor Things’ among 2024 Producers Guild Awards nominees

Column: Ron DeSantis and the whitewashing of slavery’s horrors

Afghanistan withdrawal may have left members of armed forces with ‘moral injury’

Ex-RNC Spokesperson Spots Major Flaw With Nikki Haley’s 2024 Video

Hyderabad was Bhagnagar, but politicians still differ

Tiffany Haddish flashes cute smile while stepping out in casual style for lunch in Los Angeles

Oprah Winfrey and Tiffany Haddish at premiere of The 1619 Project in LA ... as show debuts on Hulu

With ‘1619,’ ‘Summer of Soul’ and ‘The Plot,’ Disney’s diverse storytelling brand is making waves

Hulu's '1619 Project' creator 'proud' of Ron DeSantis attacks

The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in January

Hernan Diaz, Tanaïs among winners of $50,000 Kirkus Prize

Conservative college’s curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota

Historians Are Mad at the New York Times, Again. Should They Be?

'Born on the Water' puts the '1619 Project' into kids' hands

Conservative book bans are part of GOP’s fascist turn

Author reveals how the forgotten Elizabeth Stuart had her eyes on the throne

Missouri bill would ban critical race theory in schools

Norman Mailer is far from canceled. He’s history

The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ warning on democracy