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Dec 2021
16m 5s

Breaking Down Howard Zinn

THE DAILY WIRE
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Over the past year, waves of parents began to speak out at their local school board meetings about concerning content being taught to their children. From pornographic reading material to radical racial and gender ideology. Some observers of the education system are pointing to what they call the Howard Zinification of the education system as a potential cause of this. Author Mary Grabar joins to discuss Howard Zinn's work, and its impact on a generation.

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