Slavery Abolition

The next step forward: In a June speech, Sanders said we should guarantee every man, woman, and child in our country basic economic rights. (AP / Andrew Harnik) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for si…

This vision that people should return to the place from which they once came, or perhaps their forebearers came, is an old one, said Martha S. Jones, the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Historically, the inte…

The 54th Massachusetts regiment at Fort Wagner. (Alamy) On May 30, 1878, the Abraham Lincoln Post No. 13 of the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic invited Frederick Douglass to speak at its annual Memorial Day celebration in New York. Douglass took t…

Democrat Amy McGrath is running against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-G.O.A.T.) in Kentucky, and so far her campaign isn't doing so well. Even the people who hate Cocaine Mitch's guts are scoffing at her. I'll let MSNBC's Kasie Hunt sum it up: Th…

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee tipped his hand, and its racist AF. For some reason that only Southern states will understand, Lee signed a proclamation declaring July 13 Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. Who in the fuck was Forrest? Well, just a Confederate general, sl…

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation declaring July 13 Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. Forrest was a Confederate general, slave trader and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.  A Tennessee law dating back to 1971 mandates that the governor must issue pr…

Its a good thing Nike was not around during the American Revolution. If the ciphers who run the shoe company were in charge back then, wed all be bowing to Queen Elizabeth and carrying Prince Williams luggage around. Blimey, these blokes are so bad that the…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded Tuesday to reports that his 19th-century ancestors owned slaves by pointing out that the same was true of former President Barack Obama and that they were in agreement on the issue of slavery reparations. You …

Birthplace of Republican Party A call to ban the Confederate flag due to its association with slavery is akin to banning the Democrat Party’s donkey and Islam’s crescent, as both of those institutions were involved in the enslavement of Africans. The Democr…

Salon Attacks The Declaration Of Independence. Here’s Why They’re So Wrong. The leftist ingrates at Salon have decided to "celebrate" Independence Day — which is celebrated on July 4th for the sole reason that our beautiful republic's Declaration of Independ…