Slavery Abolition

The RMS Titanic was notoriously marketed as unsinkable because it featured sixteen internal watertight compartments. If its hull sprang a leak at any one spot, doors would automatically shut and contain the water. If no more than two, or in some cases four, c…

On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton presided over a discussion of the Donald Trump administration delaying the release of the new $20 bill replacing President Andrew Jackson's image with iconic anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman. Obvi…

By Oladeinde OlawoyinPresident Muhammadu Buhari is a likable human. The near-general consensus of those who have met him is that the man exudes a certain child-like atmosphere of innocence and simplicity that endears him to many people in informal conversatio…

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A Democrat who ran with Lincoln o…

Its clearly an understatement to say Jon Voight considers President Trump a national treasure. The outspoken actor praised Trump as the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln in an effusive video shared to Twitter on Friday evening. People of the Republic…

If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson. As the Civil War wound down in 1865, Gen. William T. Sherman made the promise that would come to be known as “4…

The Clotilda carried 110 men, women and children from Africa to Alabama in 1860.The last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the United States has been discovered in Alabama's Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was deliberately sunk, a historical…

Researchers working in the murky waters of the northern Gulf Coast have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States, historical officials said Wednesday. A statement by the Alabama Historical Commission …

After eight seasons of rooting for the girl who became the Mother of Dragons and Breaker of Chains, accepting heroine Daenerys Targaryens descent into genocidal madness and ultimate doom was tough to take for many of the millions of viewers who tuned in to th…

For more than two centuries, until the election of 2008, American presidents all looked alike. They were white and male and every one of them came to office with experience in the government, military or both. Barack Obama, the first African-American pres…