Slavery Abolition

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…

We take it for granted in 2019 that the Republican Party is America’s primary vehicle for political conservatism, but that was not always the case. To understand how the Republican Party became associated with right-wing politics and, for that matter, how the…

Are there any American heroes we can agree on in 2019? This might sound like an abstract question, but for the Fourth of July weekend, Politico Magazine has decided to make it more concrete, asking experts: Who would you put on a new Mount Rushmore? Every ye…