Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the […] The post Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops appeared first on American Almanac .
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, an outfit that openly describes itself as a "political education program for aspiring revolutionaries." Among the facilitators who led sessions for children as young as seventh grade: Anthony Smith, who pleaded guilty to a felony for his role in torching a police car during the riots…Open
Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., a great-grandson of enslaved Americans, is calling out the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History for what he describes as systematic anti-American indoctrination, and a 162-page White House report backs him up. Jackson, a nondenominational bishop, pastor, and author, sat down with Fox News Digital to lay out his case against […] The post Descendant of slaves rebukes Smithsonian for turning American history into a political weapon appeared first on American Almanac .
Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., a great-grandson of enslaved Americans, is calling out the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History for what he describes as systematic anti-American indoctrination, and a 162-page White House report backs him up. Jackson, a nondenominational bishop, pastor, and author, sat down with Fox News Digital to lay out his case against the museum he believes has abandoned honest history in favor of ideology. His criticism comes weeks after the White House Domestic Policy Council released a sweeping report titled "Saving America's Story," which concluded that the museum has undergone what it called "ideological capture." Jackson did not mince words. He framed the museum's approach as a deliberate effort to turn…Open
A resurfaced video shows the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History telling UCLA students that history is a "prime tool of social justice," months before she assured Congress the institution stays nonpartisan. Anthea Hartig, the first woman to lead the National Museum of American History, delivered the remarks during a February 2025 […] The post Smithsonian history director called history a 'prime tool of social justice' — then told Congress the museum doesn't take sides appeared first on American Almanac .
A resurfaced video shows the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History telling UCLA students that history is a "prime tool of social justice," months before she assured Congress the institution stays nonpartisan. Anthea Hartig, the first woman to lead the National Museum of American History, delivered the remarks during a February 2025 presentation hosted by UCLA's Luskin Center for History and Policy. In the video, reviewed by Fox News Digital , Hartig laid out a sweeping vision for the taxpayer-funded museum, one built around equity, reparations, restorative justice, and the celebration of activist movements including Black Lives Matter. Roughly seventeen months later, seated before the House Oversight and…Open
A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation . Why it matters: Years after the backlash against Confederate monuments, new fights have emerged over what to do with remaining physical reminders of particularly hurtful racism — tear them down, preserve them, reinterpret them or return them to communities harmed by them. Zoom in: In Fort Worth, Texas, advocates are turning the former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium into an arts and community center named after a Black lynching victim. - The building once stood as a threat to Black Americans, Latinos and Catholic and Jewish immigrants. -…
A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation . Why it matters: Years after the backlash against Confederate monuments, new fights have emerged over what to do with remaining physical reminders of particularly hurtful racism — tear them down, preserve them, reinterpret them or return them to communities harmed by them. Zoom in: In Fort Worth, Texas, advocates are turning the former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium into an arts and community center named after a Black lynching victim. - The building once stood as a threat to Black Americans, Latinos and Catholic and Jewish immigrants. -…Open