Slavery Abolition

On Wednesday, February 15, Al Sharpton led a large crowd of protestors and conducted a march to express opposition to governor Ron DeSantis. This camera-glomming event was created as a reaction to the over-hyped news that the state was embattled over a college AP black history course. A racial issue…

Lincoln wasn’t just gifted at rhetoric, politics, and moral leadership. He was also the greatest proponent of technological progress ever to inhabit the presidency...Read More

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…