Thank You, Senator Cotton

For making me aware of the 1619 Project

St. Cotton opens the path to knowledge of Black history and its centrality to American freedoms via publicity for the 1619 Project. Collage of photos includes protestors by Marcus Lavergne for KUNR Reno

I’d never heard of the 1619 Project before it landed in the news this week when Senator Tom Cotton said slavery was “the necessary evil upon which the Union was built” while advocating to defund schools that teach the 1619 Project.

That led me to this story explaining the Project in the New York Times and to this one which…