Slavery Abolition

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) attends a House Financial Services Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., December 2, 2020. (Greg Nash/Reuters) Amid the accusations that border patrol agents have been resorting to inhumane methods to corral the massive surge of migrants…

Watch This Episode On YouTube Listen To This Episode: BitcoinTVAppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynOvercastAlthough the general sentiment of the Bitcoin community and that of Bitcoin Magazine is one of hope and optimism, the real world is often not so straightforward. One of our recent posts discussed the reality of addiction, and how this relates…

A 30ft wave crashes over your head as you enter the museum, dragging you instantly down into the roiling waters. The waves keep coming at you in gunmetal grey surges, with nothing to cling to amid the loneliness of the sea. Across the giant screen in front of you, words…

The latest development diary post for Victoria III talks in detail about how Paradox's empire builder will deal with the topic of slavery. Extremely carefully, is the answer. "Slavery is, obviously, a horrific crime against humanity and precisely for this reason, many games that have a slavery-related setting or mechanics…

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) If the task force commissions a school curriculum about slavery in the state, Californians will see more clearly how the past informs the present. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Read More

Biden again defends Afghanistan pullout on 9/11 SHANKSVILLE, United States — President Joe Biden, speaking unexpectedly during a visit to the Pennsylvania site of one of the 9/11 plane crashes, again defended the widely criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the US could not “invade” every country where Al-Qaeda is present.…

For the first time in almost 20 years, the Tales series feels new again. I’ve got a long history with the Tales series. I was absolutely obsessed with Tales of Symphonia back on the GameCube, beating it at least four times, and I’ve been chasing that special kind of JRPG…

2021 Korean Literature Review Contest to Be Hosted Online in 12 Countries Contest to Accept Essays and Personal Media Content Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President Kwak Hyo-hwan), a public organization affiliated with the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Hwang Hee), will be hosting the…

Is history made by individual actors—by so-called great men—or by vast, impersonal social forces? Tolstoy, in War and Peace, saw history as the chaos of random events, a swarm of uncoordinated human actions that could never be adequately summarized without falsehood, nor directed by any individual. In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, on…

The Romance of a Blizzard, a new book by Elizabeth Rowe, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. The Romance of a Blizzard tells the story of a loving white family in the South during the Civil War. The greed for more money and power caused undue suffering on…