Slavery Abolition

The worst Democratic gerrymander in the country is arguably in Illinois, as it set off a high-stakes game of musical chairs among the state’s five Republican House members. Nathaniel Rakich: One of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican from Illinois. But the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map seems…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Terrell Osborne knows well what happens when urban renewal comes to communities of color. As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1950s and 1960s, huge swaths of his neighborhood of Lippitt Hill, a center of Black life at the foot of the…

I once wrote a law review article about scandals at the United States Supreme Court. I sent a copy of it to a Supreme Court justice. That justice was Samuel Alito. I’d told Justice Alito about “Scandal! Early Supreme Court News Coverage and the Justice-Journalist Divide” at a work dinner…

A white teacher in Rochester, NY, Patrick Rausch, is facing heavy criticism for allegedly instructing his class of mostly black seventh-graders to pick seeds out of cotton to teach a history lesson about slavery. Parents are calling for Rausch to be axed and for his teaching license to be revoked.…

Dr. Martin Tobin revisits the Tuskegee Syphilis Study with a fresh, new perspective. Credit: ATS This year marks 50 years since it came to light that the nation's leading public health agency, the Public Health Service, conceived an unethical "research study"—the Tuskegee Experiment—that lasted for 40 years. The participants? Black…

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR World 2 May, 2022 12:24 AM2 minutes to read A US teacher has been put into administrative leave after a poorly received lesson on slavery. Photo / Getty A white teacher in upstate New York has been suspended after telling a class…

School officials in Rochester, New York, are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in a seventh-grade social studies class. “It made me feel bad to be a Black person,”…

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Hundreds of civil rights activists are expected to show up at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy at the foot of a towering monument to the heroes of the South's proslavery past. The state chapter of the Sons of…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comATLANTA, April 30 (Reuters) - Carrying signs decrying "racist traitors," about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy. The protest took place at the…