{"id":1715145,"date":"2022-10-28T13:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715145"},"modified":"2022-10-28T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:04:09","slug":"virginia-public-library-dropped-40k-on-speech-from-1619-project-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-public-library-dropped-40k-on-speech-from-1619-project-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Public Library Dropped $40k on Speech From 1619 Project Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-public-library-dropped-40k-on-speech-from-1619-project-creator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715145&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Virginia public library forked over $40,000 to the creator of the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018s 1619 Project to speak as part of its &#8220;banned books week,&#8221; the <em>Daily Wire<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/1619-project-writer-demanded-40k-for-45-minute-speech-busting-librarys-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Arlington Public Library paid Nikole Hannah-Jones the princely sum to deliver a speech titled &#8220;1619 and the Fight for Democracy.&#8221; The talk focused almost entirely on backlash to her project, which claims that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery. Historians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/03\/06\/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/20\/magazine\/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> Hannah-Jones and the <em>Times<\/em> for the 1619 Project&#8217;s inaccuracies, although the project has not actually been banned.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones is one of several American writers who rake in money from lucrative speaking engagements while accusing America of systemic racism. Universities and public school districts <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/the-wages-of-woke-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have paid<\/a> Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi tens of thousands of dollars to give talks on concepts like &#8220;white fragility&#8221; and &#8220;antiracism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The library&#8217;s contract with Hannah-Jones prevented recording of the event and pledged to pay her $100,000 if the contract were breached. The talk was live-streamed on YouTube but has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0SkU2xcsZXU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gone private<\/a>. It is still available on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/acova-Arlington_Reads_Nikole_Hannah-Jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an internet archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Wire<\/em> obtained internal correspondence from library officials that shows Hannah-Jones&#8217;s visit pushed the library &#8220;$7,500 over and above the \u2018approved&#8217; budget.&#8221; One official noted in the lead-up to the event that it was &#8220;getting a lot of very ignorant and negative comments&#8221; from community members.<\/p>\n<p>The Pulitzer Center awarded Hannah-Jones a prize for the project and pushed for it to be <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/1619-project-creator-says-her-series-is-journalism-and-not-a-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of school curricula nationwide<\/a>. Hannah-Jones has walked back the project&#8217;s scope at times, saying it is &#8220;not a history&#8221; but &#8220;a work of journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> was in attendance at the event, but the questioning period ended as its reporters approached the microphone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia public library forked over $40,000 to the creator of the New York Times&#8217;s 1619 Project to speak as part of its &#8220;banned books week,&#8221; the Daily Wire reported on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe post Virginia Public Library Dropped $40k on Speech From 1619 Project Creator appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":1715148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}