Reality Checks: Slaves Aren’t Mistresses, the New Underground Railroad, Jim Crow School Choice, and FRBs
- No, Sally Hemings was not Thomas Jefferson’s mistress. (via Teen Vogue)
- Churches prepare to take their sanctuary operations for undocumented immigrants underground. (via Buzzfeed)
- Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos celebrated HBCUs as being pioneers of “school choice,” conveniently ignoring the legal segregation that kept black and white students apart. (via The Hill)
- The next big thing in astronomy: fast radio bursts. (via Nature)
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