Slavery Abolition

A few years ago, I began to look every so often at the two Census reports where my one known ancestor from Maryland appears: 1870 and 1880. I’m always hoping to discover something I missed—about myself, about my past. Every gaze is a moment of wonder and frustration. There she…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Decades before President Biden asked senators on Tuesday if they were "on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?" he voted to restore the U.S. citizenship of the president of the Confederacy, according to a report.  Biden used the reference during…

When a U.S. President and Vice President make a roughly 650-mile journey south from Washington, D.C., for a joint appearance, the choice of destination is bound to be meaningful. “He did not just come to , he’s in the AUC,” says Adrienne Jones, an assistant professor of political science at…

There are some figures whose place in the story of the American past is so central that schoolchildren cannot help but know them: George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln, or Rosa Parks. But there is also a group of people who have not passed into national legend, and perhaps whose lives…

“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can…

The Chinese government publication Global Times welcomed electric car company Tesla to Xinjiang, this week, claiming that CEO Elon Musk’s decision to do business in a region known for enslaving ethnic minorities is an indication American companies are “shrugging off” human rights concerns. The Global Times also took Musk’s move into Urumqi…

American Lawyer features twelve attorneys who transformed American legal history. They include Abraham Lincoln, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Robert Jackson, Russell Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Flom, Joe Jamail, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Johnny Cochran, Larry Sonsini, Catharine MacKinnon and David McCraw. Northport, NY, January 05, 2022 --(PR.com)-- “American Lawyer is a tour de…

The Home Office confirmed more than 2,000 children who entered the UK over the last four years have been victims of human trafficking, according to new statistics. Newly revealed data shows that the Home Office received 2,634 child refugee referrals during this time period for a scheme which supports victims of…

The removal of the Thomas Jefferson statue in New York City is about “hatred of white Americans” rather than slavery, according to documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz. “I did a hidden camera video in the city of New York where I asked people to take down the statue of George Washington…

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a British colony in the 1650s, the government has begun a push for reparations, seeking redress for nearly two centuries of slavery…