Day: November 20, 2019

Trump Is Speaking at a Historically Black College. His Allies Will Outnumber Students.

President Trump, speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina, said he had done more for black voters than any other president.President Trump spoke at a criminal justice forum at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., on Friday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesCOLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump, speaking to a handpicked audience of supporters at a historically black…

Essex Crossing Is the Anti-Hudson Yards

Even half-done, Essex Crossing, on the Lower East Side, is shaping up as one of New York’s most promising new mixed-use developments — the anti-Hudson Yards. A $1.9 billion, six-acre, for-profit mega-project occupying several blocks around Delancey Street where traffic barrels onto and off the Williamsburg Bridge, it replaces what had been a vast no-man’s…

Nebraska Just Approved More Inclusive Social Studies Guidelines. They’re a Window Into the Changing Way Kids Are Learning U.S. History

JoAnna Wood was in fifth grade when her class watched the movie of The Indian in the Cupboard. At one point in the 1995 film, a cowboy calls an Indian a savage. Her fellow students cracked up. “I didn’t think it was funny,” says Wood, 12, who is a member of the Winnebago tribe and…

Transit System Chief Apologizes to Black Rider Detained for Eating a Breakfast Sandwich

(SAN FRANCISCO) — The head of a San Francisco Bay Area commuter train system apologized to a black rider who was detained and cited by police for eating a breakfast sandwich on a train platform after an outcry from people who assailed enforcement of a no-food rule as racist. More than two dozen people staged…