The Standards for African American Studies

Sally Kohn: Kamala Harris' claim that the standards focus on white reformers and abolitionists is laughable. She turned to Heather Cox Richardson, a historian whose letters from an American sub stack has over 1.1 million subscribers. "I could see she was just exaggerating or distorting almost everything," Kohn says of Richardson's article. 'If she has a 1% conversion rate, I can't even think about it.'