Slavery Abolition

On another busy day on the box, Villanelle is back in London in Killing Eve, The Real Marigold Hotel and First Dates Hotel are both back, and there's the last-ever episode of Homeland . . . Pick of the Day Killing Eve, 10.15pm, RTÉ One Even though I kinda gave up…

Like Frederick Douglass, we can find inspiration for this moment in the oldest story of rebirth and renewal. April 26, 2020 Professor of American History at Yale University Trent Parke / MagnumThose with power who are planning our resurgence from the coronavirus need imagination and, above all, the humility of…

Skip to comments. Trump plans to cut daily coronavirus briefings Axios ^ | 4/24/20 32 minutes ago | Jonathan Swan Posted on 04/24/2020 3:41:47 PM PDT by conservative98 President Trump plans to pare back his coronavirus press conferences, according to four sources familiar with the internal deliberations.He may stop appearing…

The 38-member Blue Ribbon Committee to Protect Society from Itself has met and determined that this is the best way to lift the quarantine. There are panels of Harvard MDs, Yale PhDs, government economists, and beltway attorneys who today seek a voice in how the quarantines should be lifted. They…

Brendan McDermid/ReutersHealthcare workers outside NYU Langone Medical Centre on 1st Avenue in Manhattan after people came to cheer and thank them Monday in New York City. The coronavirus pandemic has already changed the US in major ways. Like other crises the country has faced, it will alter the nation in…

IT HAD BEEN A LONG SATURDAY NIGHT for James Fisk Jr. His unkempt blond hair marked the hours he had been running his hands through it, while his waffle-weave suit struggled to hold in his girth. Bones of Fisk’s food of choice — turkey—— were strewn about. As the clock…

Politwoops » Deleted Tweet from Joe Collins, R-Calif. joecollins43rd (R-Calif.) @joecollins43rd RT @ErrolWebber: On this day in history, April 16, 1862, Republican President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill that abolished slavery… https://t.co/axKp2siZaJ Deleted after 13 seconds about 9 hours ago. Original tweet by @ErrolWebber.Twitter_Logo_Blue It looks like this tweet was…

Just shy of one month into lockdown, the novelty is starting to wear a bit thin – especially when it comes to socialising. Meeting up for Zoom beers or quarantinis over Facetime may have been fun a few weeks ago, but now the jarring interruptions as more than one person…

Inside the cramped and dusty attic overlooking the pale green Kanawha River in the Appalachian Mountains, stacks of 100-year-old business records — deposit books, letters from customers, employee records — balanced precariously on cabinets, lined shelves and sat scattered across the wooden floor.Siblings Nancy Bruns and Lewis Payne stumbled upon…

Today is the 105th day of 2020. There are 261 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1993: On International Women's Day, a Chinese newspaper asks 100 women what they would like to be. Sixty say they want to be men.OTHER EVENTS1629: Peace of Susa ends war between England and France.1775:…