Slavery Abolition

This Monday, take a few moments to think about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  We used to observe individual dates devoted to both of those famous presidents who remain among the most exalted to hold the office. And leading up to their birthdays, students in schools often spent time learning about…

(Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images) Getty Images Abraham Lincoln richly deserves his own day instead of getting mashed into the employer-convenient “President's Day.” Doubtless he deserves his own holiday as a martyr fighting to preserve the union, promoting economic equality and laying the groundwork for the slavery-ending 13th, 14th and…

The clothes we wear are what connects women everywhere, says Grace Forrest, the founding director of Walk Free, an international human rights group working to eradicate modern slavery. Ahead of International Women’s Day, she reflects on how feminism must include the women who make our clothes In just a few…

Illustration: maxuser (Shutterstock) It doesn’t take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I’d help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried asking for a list of books about Abraham Lincoln and it…

Nikole Hanna-Jones, author of The 1619 Project is pretty well-known to Twitchy readers for saying really stupid stuff and today is no different. She initially tried to dunk on FOX News for writing about a different silly tweet, but that is not the stupid part! The stupid comes in when…

Students at an Alabama high school are taking a stand against administrators allegedly trying to whitewash their institution’s Black History Month program. An Administrator Allegedly ‘Felt Uncomfortable’ About Slavery & Civil Rights Being Included ABC 33/40 reports that the situation unfolded earlier this week at Hillcrest High School over in Tuscaloosa, as over…

Much has changed since Abraham Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speech, but too much remains the same. U.S. President Joe Biden delivering the 2023 State of the Union address. Credit: The White House / Wikimedia Commons As U.S. President Biden prepared his State of the Union address on Tuesday, a…

Ireland 'should not be overlooked' for reparations from Britain in relation to the Great Famine. That's according to historical novelist Katherine Mezzacappa, who was speaking as BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan recently donated stg£100,000 (€112,665) and apologised to the island of Grenada for her family's involvement in slavery. She is a…

Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios. Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Red states are limiting Black history lessons in public schools at the same time scholars are producing groundbreaking new works around art, slavery, civil rights, and the Great Migration. Why it matters: A work on Black history has won a National Book Award…

MANILA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Surviving Filipino women sexually enslaved by Japan's World War II military on Tuesday urged the Japanese government to acknowledge its war crimes, resolve the "comfort women" issue, and stop "warmongering." "It is very unjust on the part of the Japanese government to continue ignoring the…