A Great American Statesman – Heath Anderson
On the morning of December 5, 1955, the black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, initiated one of the…
Tag: Civil Rights
The Black Church Can Help Save America—Again –…
It was a Sunday in Chicago, sometime in the mid 1950s. The Rev. C.J. Rodgers–a large, handsome,…
The One Idea That Ended Slavery – Tomer Persico
The oldest known records of slavery come from Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago. Then Egypt. Then…
The Long Struggle to Live Up to ‘Brown’
On the morning of November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked toward the doors of her new…
The Court Has Acted on Tariffs. Now Congress Must Act,…
“The President is seeking to exploit questionable statutory language to aggrandize his own power,”…
Civil Disobedience 101 – The Dispatch
That he and others would end up in jail was one of King’s basic assumptions. He wrote: e had no…
It’s Time to End Affirmative Action for Men –…
For most of American history, higher education was dominated by men. But over the course of the last…
Winning the Vote Out West
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered the famous “Declaration of Sentiments” to a crowd of…
How the Religious Left Ceded Political Power to the…
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Political Hatred Seeps Deeper Than We Think
The New Medievals The bones of our conspiracies haven’t changed, though their details are different.…
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