Another symbol of the Confederacy falls
Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional
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Frederick Douglass’s Compressed, Expanding World
In February 1848, angry Parisians crowded their city’s streets to protest restrictive monarchial policies. The Prime Minister resigned, the king
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Image courtesy of The Ebony Archives[1] I was watching the 67th prime time Emmy Awards live when they aired on
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In the opening lines of her autobiography, Living for Change, Grace Lee Boggs remarked: “Had I not been born female
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“I who was Born a PAGAN and a SLAVE Now sweetly sleep a CHRISTIAN in my Grave What tho’ my
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