History will not look back kindly at Black History Month 2022.
Instead of taking the opportunity to teach about America's racist and violent past toward African Americans, school districts across the country waged campaigns to ban books that told history as it was.
Instead of teaching about the fateful moment in 1619 when the first ship carrying Black human beings as commercial cargo arrived on the shores of Virginia, Republican-led state legislatures pushed forward with proposals that would ensure that stories about the nation's original sin would never be honestly told.
