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Fox News
7 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Civil rights activist calls out media silence on Cincinnati attack
Bob Woodson, president and founder of the Woodson Center, speaks out about the media's refusal to cover Cincinnati, OH attack involving a black assailant.
Wall Street Journal
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
The Economics of Slavery
Juneteenth marks emancipation, yet debate still rages over how to teach slavery, why it arose and persisted, and what place it holds in America's self-image. Two projects set the poles. The New York Times's '1619 Project' recasts the nation's origin story, focusing on slavery and discrimination rather than the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Woodson Center's '1776 Unites' argues that the Revolution's democratic ideals, imperfectly realized at the founding, launched a long arc of progress, visible from the Civil War through the civil-rights era and beyond.
