american-history
Oney Judge, enslaved by George Washington, made a great escape — and history | Michael Coard
This is a story that every American should know. And it's a movie Hollywood should make right now.
Some 68 years after Brown v. Board, similar foes continue stubbornly fighting progress | Opinion
W.E.B. DuBois once said, 'Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.'
Historic report on federal Indian boarding schools finds more than 400, including 3 in Pa.
‘This has left lasting scars for all Indigenous people,’ Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland said.
Abortion has been common in the U.S. since the 18th Century. So has the debate | Opinion
The argument started a century before Roe, and has been going on ever since.
We have the tools to build an extraordinary civilization. We ought to use them | David DeWitt
We must cleanse the toxins in the bloodstream of America's body politic, and move toward a vision of something equitable, just, verdant, and prosperous for all of us.
What the Founders meant by ‘virtue,’ and how it could save our politics now | Friday Morning Coffee
A word that's become synonymous with morality had a more totemic meaning to the Revolutionary generation.
Jackie Robinson was a radical. Don’t listen to the sanitized version of history | Opinion
He challenged banks for discriminating against Black neighborhoods and condemned slumlords who preyed on Black families.
The loyal opposition is a key element of democracy, and we’re losing it | Opinion
Politicians, parties used to understand that if they lost an election, they'd accept the result and try again next time.
Slavery never really ended because the 13th Amendment still allows it | Michael Coard
People think the 13th Amendment repealed slavery. It didn't. It just created slavery by another name.
The biggest threat to American democracy comes from within | Janice Ellis
Democracy isn't something we can take for granted. As the war in Ukraine shows, we have to fight for it.
There are limits to the American Renaissance over Ukraine | Bruce Ledewitz
American public life remains as unhealthy as it was before Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is proof all judges should be Black women | Michael Coard
If white men are the disease of America in terms of racism, misogyny, homophobia, the obvious cure is a Black woman.