Right-wing zealots are intent on hiding our history with a state-sponsored, Orwellian purging of knowledge. Last year, 1,586 books were banned in 86 school districts, affecting over two million students largely in the South.
A former intelligence officer and data scientist explains how extremists, conspiracy theorists and violent racists fled to smaller platforms. Once there, their remarks continued to fester and spread.
A Texas proposal to "redefine" slavery grew out of work done under a Texas law that says slavery and racism can’t be taught as part of the “true founding” of the United States.
Truth in America is under seize. There has been a concerted, intentional effort to bury our history, with the purpose of hiding crimes against humanity, acts of horror, brutality, slavery and torture.
Antisemitism on social media platforms is fueled by algorithms, which are programmed to register engagement. This ensures that the more engagement a post receives, the more users see it.
"America First" has been the slogan of white supremacist factions for about 100 years and has now been adopted by various right wing groups, insurrectionist militias and politicians. And CPI is acting as their HR department in D.C.
White nationalists in the United States, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters and other attempted a collective coup on Jan. 6, 2021. And they wanted it to go further.
People like Patriot Front are basically cowards. Sure, they are a "hate" group. But that hate has at its core a terror of others. This is one of the reasons these people are masked.
Educator Cecelia Lewis was attacked in Georgia's Cherokee County and neighboring Cobb County by white parents making baseless claims that she was bringing critical race theory to both school districts.
The Texas GOP platform formalizes the false idea that Joe Biden is illegitimate, hatred of the LGBT+ community, white supremacy, paranoia of immigrants and the idea that Texas can ignore federal laws that it doesn't like.
Confronting the harsh legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, the United States has taken steps to establish a Native American Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It’s a move that’s long overdue.
We wake up in a nation where Juneteenth and MLK Day are both national holidays—yet where an entire political party is working to prevent the teaching of the ugliness that precipitated the civil rights movement even existed.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans.
I grew up in a church community that pitted people against each other and called it “Christianity.” As a pastor now myself, I know there’s another way.