The President’s assertion came in response to a tweet from an unverified account stating that California schools were teaching the 1619 Project curriculum. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty ImagesThe 1619 Project is a long-form journalism and multimedia initiative of The New York Times Magazine, started in August of 2019, 400 years after African slaves first landed on the shores of America. For example, on Friday, the Trump administration announced that it was planning to cease diversity training that it deemed anti-American. Despite the timing, Trump’s tweet isn’t the first instance the Trump administration and its allies targeted the 1619 Project. That’s not teaching history, that is shaping national propaganda.

Source: Forbes September 06, 2020 19:52 UTC