Slavery Abolition

Artist George Gray Barnard didn't use photographs of Abraham Lincoln to create his bronze statue. Instead, he used Lincoln's life masks to create the mold of his face. It was cast of his face before his assassination.  (Photo: Cara Owsley, The Enquirer/Cara …

CarsPublished on September 20th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider 0 September 20th, 2019 by Johnna Crider  Billy Cramer is a 21-year-old video editor from Stockholm Sweden who has been studying filmmaking and learning everything he can about this art form for man…

Skip to comments. After Blowback, Ocasio-Cortez Clarifies D.C. Slavery Claimwww.dailywire.com ^ | By James Barrett September 20, 2019 Posted on 09/20/2019 1:47:56 PM PDT by Red Badger One of the ways Democrats are hoping to gain more electoral and congre…

John Brown saw bloodshed as a necessary means to end slavery, but were his actions historically justified or terribly misguided? As an abolitionist, John Brown was of a highly particular kind. It wasn’t merely the fact that he was white that distinguished hi…

In 2019, the author was chosen as Faculty speaker of the year at Iona College and asked to speak to the graduating class at Spring Honors Convocation. Below is an excerpt from her remarks. As honors students you have demonstrated that you have the ability to…

Alabama Monroeville: A new play about the relationship between Alabama authors Truman Capote and Harper Lee will have its debut performances in their hometown. Truman Talks Nelle Harper Lee is set to premiere at the old Monroe County courthouse Sept. 27. It …

In many ways Thelma and Louise is the Movie That Did.  Director Ridley Scott encouraged input from his stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis to tell Callie Khouris feminist fable that became not just a 1991 box-office surprise but in the ways that movies can p…

The top ten candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination squared off Thursday night at Texas Southern University, a public historically black college in Houston, Texas. Here are the highlights. Julian Castro Takes A Dig At Joe Bidens Age After Misc…

(Roman Genn) It looks like Bolton did manage to start a war before he left. Its an axiom among Trump advisers that everyone is just one tweet away, and John Boltons tweet came. The former national security adviser says he wasnt fired, but resigned, and we …

Election years have their assortment of ritual appendages: sacrificial meats eaten at outdoor festivals, lies, scandals, poll numbers that grow increasingly useless as a country learns not to pick up the phone, dog whistles, prejudice, and metaphors that near…