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Jul 2021
1h 17m

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates...

NEW YORK TIMES OPINION
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You’ve heard plenty by now about the fights over teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. But behind those skirmishes is something deeper: A fight over the story we tell about America. Why that fight has so gripped our national discourse is the question of this podcast: What changes when a country’s sense of its own history changes? What changes w ... Show More
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