EVAN ANDREWS @ history.com [A]t least 12 chief executives—over a quarter of all American presidents—enslaved people during their lifetimes. Of these, eight held enslaved people while in office. George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe Andrew Jackson Martin VanBuren William Henry Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Andrew Johnson Ulysses S Grant
Read More How Many U.S. Presidents Owned Enslaved People?CHRISTOPHER KLEIN In his ambition to rise above his humble beginnings, Hamilton appeared to have frequently swallowed his anti-slavery sentiments as he pushed for acceptance into America’s colonial elite—most of whom enslaved people. In 1780, he married into the wealthy, slaveholding Schuyler family. As a New York delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Hamilton saw the…
Read More Alexander Hamilton’s Complicated Relationship to SlaveryBy MATT STAGGS First Circle: Limbo It’s the retirement community of the afterlife. Second Circle: Lust The final destination of the lustful and adulterous; you can expect this place to be full of reality television stars. Ninth Circle: Treachery The final circle is a frozen wasteland occupied by history’s greatest traitors. So where would our current political leaders end…
Read More A Visitor’s Guide to Dante’s Nine Circles of HellAccording to the BBC, “Mr Trump won just 8% of the African American vote in the 2016 presidential election and critics accuse him of stoking racial tensions.” “Many Black Americans who are first-timers or relatively new to voting told us in focus group settings that they don’t see the point of choosing between the lesser of…
Read More Why Are Some Young Black Men Supporting Trump?Kavanaugh’s Opinion in Wisconsin Voting Case Raises Alarms Among Democrats By Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti October 27, 2020 The Supreme Court decision on Monday barring the counting of mail-in ballots in Wisconsin that arrive after Election Day was not a surprise for many Democrats, who had pressed for it but expected to lose. In his opinion, attached to…
Read More This is why the Supreme Court is so important…It is with diligence and a sense of urgency recognizing this moment in our racial justice history, that we announced civil rights leader, the Reverend Doctor William Barber, II will be delivering a keynote address at Facing Race: A National Virtual Conference, November 10-12, 2020. Watch our announcement video. The Reverend Doctor William Barber, II is recognized…
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Read More 7 Things Medicare Doesn’t CoverCamille Caldera USA TODAY Oct. 21, 2020 A post on Instagram by Betches Sup — the politics and news hub of the feminist website — states six claims to back up its sentiment that we are “living under minority rule.” A president who lost the popular vote by 3 MILLION has nominated a full THIRD OF THE SUPREME COURT. TRUE In 2016, Hillary Clinton bested Donald…
Read More Fact check: ‘Living under minority rule’ post contains 6 true facts on Trump, BarrettAccording to the New York times, it’s not just the public polls. Recent private polls conducted by political campaigns are filled with bad news for President Trump. He is doing eight to 10 percentage points worse in many congressional districts than he did in 2016, Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report writes. His struggles have…
Read More The Latino gender gapLindy Washburn, NorthJersey.com 10/14/2020 On the afternoon of Sept. 22, I became a data point in the search for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. That’s when I received the first of two shots in a clinical trial to develop a vaccine and became one of 30,000 volunteers to take a needlestick for science. Why am I doing it? A combination of altruism, curiosity,…
Read More I volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial in New Jersey: Here’s what it’s been like since the shot