1619 Slavery

Do people who take a knee during the national anthem stand and cheer the fireworks on the 4th of July? For some Americans, Independence Day is the greatest holiday on the calendar. It celebrates, not just  a nation’s founding, but an idea’s founding: the idea of a “land of the free”…

Panel is Whoopi, Joy, Sunny, and Meghanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf6LPgf1h-AAdditional clips and more behind the cut Hot Topic Black Lives Matterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oi24bpdKSIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_khDDcSEj0Juneteenth honors the end of slavery in the US. You can read more about Juneteenth at this linkHayden and Mickey Stevenson’s song I Can’t Breathe is performed by Deitrick Haddon.Nikole Hannah Jones joins,…

America is burning. Rioters set fire to police stations and restaurants. Looters have ravaged shops from coast to coast. And now they’re coming for the statues — not just of Confederate generals, but the republic’s Founders, including George Washington, whose statue was torn down in Portland, Ore. Call them the…

U.S. Vandals spray-painted '1619' on torso, a reference to NYT's '1619 Project'(POST-MILLENNIAL) A statue of George Washington, the first president of the United States, was toppled and burned Thursday night by Antifa in Portland, Oregon. The statue is located on the front lawn of Portland's German American Society and is…

The claim: Irish Americans were enslaved in the Americas and treated worse than enslaved Black peopleNational protests against police brutality amid a global pandemic have caused many Americans to reckon with the country’s history of racism and inequality. The moment has caused a fake historical meme to again surface.“The first slaves…

Pro-Mosaddegh protests in Tehran, 16 August 1953 | Wikimedia Commons. Public domain In August 1619, a ship called the White Lion arrives in Virginia, a year before the Mayflower, the ship that was transporting the first English Puritans. It carries with it the first load of African slaves, captured in…

Democratic deception doesn’t get much lower. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the man who came within a hair’s breadth of the vice presidency of the United States in the 2016 election, took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to offer a staggeringly inaccurate history of slavery in North America.…

Lawrence Andrea Milwaukee Journal SentinelPublished 5:19 PM EDT Jun 17, 2020MADISON - Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday that the Juneteenth flag will be raised over the Wisconsin Capitol for the first time in state history beginning at sunrise Friday.  The flag commemorating the end of slavery in the United States…

Last week, my graduate school classmate Venmo-ed me $30 for lunch with the text: “bc nobody should have to deal with the news AND cooking." Since then, I have tried to understand why her gesture upset me. First of all, I did not need the money. I come from a…

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - APRIL 22: A general view of Harvard University campus. (Photo by Maddie ... Meyer/Getty Images) Getty Images America is arguably the most magnificent manifestation of the Enlightenment that transformed the world after 1500. Our nation was discovered and settled by adventurers and risk-takers embracing change. Founding Fathers…