And it is a story that doesn’t need to be whitewashed. About US is a forum to explore issues of race and identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. In most history books ...

Kamala Harris: “In the state of Florida ... and really try to whitewash history in a lot of ways. And when I say whitewash, I mean that literally. I took a look at the standards this morning ...

“It’s an attempt to whitewash our history,” said a disappointed Thompson said after the meeting. Civil rights and other community groups had sent a letter to the state earlier this week ...

These numbers speak to how government-led historic preservation in the US has long been a whitewashed undertaking ... Register of Historic Places, the State Historic Preservation Offices, and ...

When curriculums are formulated, approved and taught by white teachers who were educated in white schools by white educators, there is a chance that they are perpetuating a whitewashed version of ...

Slavery was threatened in the United States because enough people in the ... marketed to children like me in the early 1960s was a whitewashed version of the dark, ugly reality that was the ...

There are “whitewashed narratives surrounding” the ... who were still often prevented from voting in other ways. Many states had laws that prohibited Black people from voting and there were ...