Some of you might have seen over the weekend a Facebook post — now gone viral — from a Houston mom who was shocked to see the Atlantic slave trade portrayed as a “migration” of “workers” from Africa in a new high school geography textbook. That textbook is one of scores of social studies textbooks adopted […]
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TFN PRESIDENT RESPONDS TO NEWS ABOUT NEW TEXAS TEXTBOOK CONTROVERSY OVER SLAVERY, MIGRATION
TFN PRESIDENT RESPONDS TO NEWS ABOUT NEW TEXAS TEXTBOOK CONTROVERSY OVER SLAVERY, MIGRATION Deeply Flawed and Politicized Textbook Adoption Process Makes This Controversy Unsurprising, Miller Says FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 5, 2015 Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller responded today to reports about how a new high school geography textbook mischaracterizes the slave trade as […]
The Week in Quotes (Sept. 27 – Oct. 3)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Houston TV Station Cuts Through the anti-HERO Spin
The organized opposition to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance has spent months spreading fear and misinformation. In fact, the Houston Chronicle editorial board, in endorsing a “Yes” vote on the ordinance, recently referred to the group as “mendacious, deceitful and irresponsible in the extreme.” Yikes. Last night, it was Houston TV station KTRK’s turn to […]
Polls: Americans Reject Extremist Demands to ‘Defund’ Planned Parenthood
Texas politicians like U.S. Senator (and Republican presidential candidate) Ted Cruz have been leaders of the effort to — as they call it — “defund” Planned Parenthood because that organization provides abortion care services (although not with federal dollars). In other words, they want to end Medicaid and other government payments for reproductive health care services — like “well-woman” checkups, […]
