Slavery Abolition

David Oyelowo has no issue with a black, British actress playing an iconic African-American like Harriet Tubman -- despite lacking roots to American slavery -- because acting is acting. Yes, you could say the British actor was just defending the home team, b…

The California Supreme Court found the city of San Diego didnt properly analyze the potential economic impacts of its 2014 marijuana dispensary rules. Also, The New York Times Magazine explores how slavery created Americas wealth, the U.S. Attorneys Office ma…

The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897 to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. During the first world war it took a more explicitly statist direction, endorsed by the British governments Balfour Declaration of 1917; in…

Skip to comments. The New York Times Reframes American History to Target Donald Trump and His SupportersRush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 19, 2019 | Rush Limbaugh Posted on 08/19/2019 2:18:12 PM PDT by Kaslin RUSH: All right. Just right here is why I am nec…

Most schoolchildren can recite the founding date of the United States of America: July 4, 1776. But a searing project from the New York Times Magazine changes that date to August 20, 1619—the day 20 enslaved Africans first arrived on Virginia soil. The 1619 …

Joe Scarborough has a show on MSNBC, Morning Joe. He is virulently anti-Trump. He has even said the US president is "openly racist" and, "if you support him, then you're supporting that". Joe has called Donald Trump "completely detached from reality", "everyb…

Before there was any New England in the North, there was something very like Old England in the South. Relatively speaking, there is still G. K. Chesterton Within Christian and conservative circles, the great English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-193…

America’s laws are largely derived from English Common Law. Sir William Blackstone’s “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” published 1765-1769 by Oxford’s Clarendon Press, had an immense influence on America’s founders, being considered the definitive pre-Re…

I saw Marianne Williamson speak on Independence Day. In Washington, D.C., crowds gathered in a rainstorm to see tanks roll and to cheer on Donald Trump. In Concord, New Hampshire, a group of about seventy people convened at a performing-arts space called Phen…

My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that flag always flew pristine. Our …