NY Times Cries GOP Racism on Front Page in Desperate Defense of KBJ

March 24th, 2022 10:55 PM

Summing up Day Two of Supreme Court hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the New York Times accused Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee of appeals to racism in Wednesday’s front-page “news analysis,” “Judging a Judge on Race and Crime, G.O.P. Plays to Base and Fringe.” The reporters hurled racist accusations at Sen. Ted Cruz: "The attack, the most dramatic of several launched…

Black History Month

February 14th, 2018 2:22 PM
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created "Negro History Week" in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976. Woodson chose February because it coincided with the birthdays of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln.

Thomas and the Nat'l Museum of African American History and Culture

December 23rd, 2016 1:35 PM
WASHINGTON — Recently, a voice of the conservative media did what he is supposed to do, to wit, tell the rest of the story. The mainstream media only tells America part of the story. They tell us how they perceive the world and leave it at that. This is why so much of recent American journalism — and indeed, history — is so unsatisfactory to sentient observers. Journalism and history are told…

Lies My Textbooks Told Me: Judging Current Supreme Court Justices

May 8th, 2012 11:07 AM
Perhaps it’s unrealistic to expect history textbooks to present and analyze events and epochs with complete objectivity. But it’s entirely reasonable to demand that they don’t actively reinforce the news media’s liberal bias when it comes to recent history and individuals who are still alive and active in shaping that history.  Yet commonly used American history textbooks have eschewed…

CBS: Memos Show Kagan ‘Stood Shoulder to Shoulder with the Liberal L

June 3rd, 2010 11:43 PM
On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Jan Crawford filed a report recounting revelations that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has a history of taking solidly liberal positions on issues like abortion, gay rights, and gun control – with evidence in the form of memos, some going back to her days working for liberal Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Crawford: "Documents buried in…

AP: US 'A Nation That Enshrined Slavery in its Constitution

September 20th, 2008 7:51 PM