The Mexican American Heritage textbook submitted to the State Board of Education for adoption in Texas this year doesn’t just promote offensive racial stereotypes and distort the history of Mexican Americans. It also teaches some pretty twisted and politicized history about slavery, the Civil War and racism. […]
Robert Jeffress, the far-right pastor of a Dallas megachurch and a prominent supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Monday launched into a planned two-week attack on evolution — and he pointed to the Texas Freedom Network and battles over science at the Texas State Board of Education. […]
Numerous news articles have been pointing to some of the problems with the offensive and factually flawed Mexican American Heritage textbook submitted for adoption by Texas public schools. One of the most jaw-dropping problems is how the textbook promotes stereotypes about supposedly “lazy” Mexicans. Prof. John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, a historian at Texas State University, noted the problematic passage in his review of the textbook for […]
Robert Jeffress, the Dallas religious-right leader, tweeted his praise of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump last night. Jeffress earlier this month argued, when talking about Trump, that it’s “biblical” to support a “strongman” in government. Remember this in the months ahead. […]
Advocates for women’s reproductive health care are still celebrating Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down some of the most extreme anti-abortion regulations passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 (House Bill 2). But we’ve been monitoring the almost unhinged and even violence-themed fury from the right over the court’s clear acknowledgment that those regulations were really intended to close […]
