'1619 Project' Already Shaping Schoolkids' Minds on Race

[The Patriot]

From the moment Fatima Morrell read The New York Times' 1619 Project last year, the educator embraced the 100-page magazine special issue on slavery and racism as a professional godsend. Morrell, an associate superintendent in the Buffalo, N.Y., school district, where 80% of the 31,200 students are non-white, was inspired by the project's reframing of American history that put the struggles and contributions of black Americans "at the very center" of the nation's self-understanding.

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