Slavery Abolition

Skip to comments. Remember That Time Abraham Lincoln Was a Racist?MOTUS A.D. ^ | 7-17-19 | MOTUS Posted on 07/17/2019 5:17:34 AM PDT by NOBO2012 Did you catch any of the chaos in the House chambers yesterday as the Dems moved to condemn President Trump…

What follows is a conversation between Gerald Horne, Kimberly Moffitt and Marc Steiner of The Real News Network. Read a transcript of their conversation below or watch the video at the bottom of the post. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: We all know that AOC and this…

I live in envy. I envy the people who know their nationality. All the people whose nationality has never been a question in their mind. I can imagine the woman staring at her reflection in the Volta River who knows she’s Ghanaian like her ancestors who libera…

The historian Jon Meacham described Donald Trump as the most racist president in American history alongside slavery-era Andrew Johnson. Meacham, who has written several presidential biographies, was reacting on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews to Trump's…

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…