{"id":585262,"date":"2021-07-07T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585262"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:20:43","slug":"ford-foundation-rallies-behind-1619-project-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-foundation-rallies-behind-1619-project-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Foundation Rallies Behind 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\">14<\/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%2Fford-foundation-rallies-behind-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=585262&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--><div readability=\"28.717948717949\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Foundation has donated millions to Chinese universities<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-736x468-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-e1623359892135.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-1536x976.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-2048x1302.png 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-1400x890.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jacob-adams\/\" title=\"Posts by Jacob Adams\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jacob Adams<\/a> \u2022 July 7, 2021 2:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"85.586573612496\">\n<p>One of the top funders of&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones&#8217;s new teaching position at Howard University has donated millions to Chinese state universities.<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Foundation was listed as a key funder in establishing the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, which will be filled by Hannah-Jones, the creator of the&nbsp;<em>Times&#8217;<\/em>s 1619 Project. But the foundation&#8217;s interests in higher education extend beyond America&#8217;s borders. The liberal nonprofit has given more than $2 million to top Chinese universities, including close partners with the regime&#8217;s military, according to the group&#8217;s federal tax filings from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation claims one of its goals is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordfoundation.org\/about\/about-ford\/a-legacy-of-social-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.fordfoundation.org\/about\/about-ford\/a-legacy-of-social-justice\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTw8lwOo7XU_M-6Wfq5ep1uHsjBg\">advancing human dignity around the world<\/a>,&#8221; yet it&nbsp;has given more than $74,000 to Beijing Zhiliao Social Work Development Center, which has worked with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Ministry of Civil Affairs.&nbsp;The ministry&#8217;s purpose is &#8220;to manage registration and monitor social groups, funds, and private non-enterprise units,&#8221; among other domestic activities, and is&nbsp;run by high-ranking CCP leader Li Jiheng, who formerly&nbsp;served as the secretary of inner Mongolia. Under Li&#8217;s tenure, a Mongolian historian of the disastrous Cultural Revolution&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unpo.org\/article\/20987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/unpo.org\/article\/20987&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYUTbUKqm64Gcgw4b_8d-hjmJaUA\">was<\/a> censored and put on indefinite house arrest, Mongolian schools&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unpo.org\/article\/20819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/unpo.org\/article\/20819&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLWPhphoctPgbbIlmODz3ul80A9w\">were<\/a>&nbsp;shut down, and protesting herders&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unpo.org\/article\/20581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/unpo.org\/article\/20581&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSoEJyWH4gI5rLRksQozcSfBVlzw\">were<\/a>&nbsp;sentenced to years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years in the region, the Chinese government has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/countries\/asia-and-the-pacific\/china\/report-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/countries\/asia-and-the-pacific\/china\/report-china\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcQp0vK1BRMuwRjUpdcDW_3G-KFQ\">sought<\/a>, &#8220;[to] change the teaching medium of several classes from Mongolian to Mandarin Chinese throughout the nine years of compulsory schooling.&#8221; They have also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508051904\/https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210508051904\/https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFG5bi4vDv0411OOe6lrISHcH4Zww\">pressured<\/a> foreign groups to remove historical references to &#8220;Genghis Khan&#8221; and &#8220;Mongols.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Foundation did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has noticed the Ford Foundation\u2019s efforts. In 2018,&nbsp;Hilary Pennington, executive vice president of the Ford Foundation,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.cidca.gov.cn\/2018-08\/24\/c_268065.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.cidca.gov.cn\/2018-08\/24\/c_268065.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHP8mIpQ54bKHEFZoKrlDDkecQP0w\">met<\/a>&nbsp;with Deng Boqing, the vice chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, which coordinates China\u2019s foreign aid. The vice chairman expressed appreciation for the Ford Foundation, and Pennington promised to further cooperate with China on social and economic development issues, specifically in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation is now rallying behind Hannah-Jones&#8217;s controversial and disputed scholarship. It&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FordFoundation\/status\/1412418833940467729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/FordFoundation\/status\/1412418833940467729&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625761722496000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHI_DzNehfzncPoIIln2z--r7L5Ew\">called<\/a>&nbsp;Hannah-Jones and jointly appointed faculty member Ta-Nehisi Coates &#8220;change-makers&#8221; who are &#8220;helping create a more just American future.&#8221; Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday on CBS that she would turn down a tenure position at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7724550898204\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s change-makers like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nhannahjones<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaNehisiCoats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TaNehisiCoats<\/a> who, as they challenge this nation to reckon with the past, are helping create a more just American future. These appointments &amp; historic levels of investment are a testament to their groundbreaking work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6agn1aPsCD\">https:\/\/t.co\/6agn1aPsCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ford Foundation (@FordFoundation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FordFoundation\/status\/1412418833940467729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Foundation has donated millions to Chinese universities  Jacob Adams \u2022 July 7, 2021 2:10 pm One of the top funders of\u00a0New York Times\u00a0journalist Nikole &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2314178,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-736x468-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Ford Foundation Rallies Behind 1619 Project Creator","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-10-at-5.17.28-PM-736x468-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Ford Foundation Rallies Behind 1619 Project Creator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585262","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}