Kanye West

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• SOURCE: UCONN Magazine
  Accessed 1/29/19
  

  No Kanye, That's Not How it Happened

  History professor Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10-13-18
  

  Kanye West, Donald Trump, and the Truth About Chicago

  by Jelani Cobb

  Blaming violence in Chicago on the Democratic Party or welfare is nonsensical.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9-30-18
  

  Kanye West calls for the abolition of the 13th Amendment

  The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5-7-18
  

  I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye

  by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-3-18
  

  The Historian Behind Slavery Apologists Like Kanye West

  His name: Ulrich B. Phillips, Columbia University history professor at the turn off the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  5-4-18
  

  Kanye West’s Harriet Tubman tweets show how little we know about her history

  by Kate Clifford Larson

  I’m a Harriet Tubman historian. There’s a lot that West got wrong.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-1-18
  

  What Experts Say About the Real History in Kanye West's Tweets on Republicans, Democrats and Race

  The history’s more complicated than he realizes.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  11-5-13
  

  Kanye West’s Ego Can’t Change History

  by Elon James White

  Wearing a symbol of hate and calling it artistic integrity proves that the rapper is more ignorant than many already thought he was.