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"The Christmas Uprising" in Jamaica, 1831, heralded the end of slavery in the...
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas Lincoln did not free enslaved people; enslaved people freed themselves. Lincoln may have signed a piece of...
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The long arc of counter-revolution to fascism, according to historian Gerald...
If you went to primary or secondary school in the US or watched any mainstream movie that discusses the past, you learned the white-washed patriotic uplifting (for some) story of people persecuted for...
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Harriet Tubman statue replaces one of slaver in Newark, New Jersey
A statue celebrating 15th-century slaver Christopher Columbus was removed from Newark, New Jersey, in 2020. It was replaced over the weekend by one of Harriet Tubman, a woman born into slavery who...
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MAGA couple tries to explain why slave-owners were anti-slavery (video)
I almost feel sorry for this Trump-adoring twosome, donned in their sartorial symbols of devotion — matching MAGA caps — as they tie their tongues into Gordian knots, striving to explain to Davram of...
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This 1998 Octavia Butler novel predicted a Christofacist United States with...
Parable of the Talents, a novel by Octavia E. Butler, published in 1998, portrays a dystopian United States under the control of Christian fundamentalists. The group, known as "Christian America," is...
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"Ron DeSantis Slave Trade Trade School" mocks GOP's take on historical...
According to the GOP, it's woke to think that slavery and the Holocaust were bad things. White non-Jews like Jesse Watters, Ron DeSantis, and Greg Gutfeld have made it a goal to explain that enslaved...
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De Niro says Apple censored his award show speech, so he read the original...
On Monday night, Robert De Niro took the stage at the Gotham Awards in New York City to introduce an award for Martin Scorsese's Apple film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which De Niro starred in. When...
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Watch Nikki Haley desperately avoid saying the Civil War was about slavery
Last night Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said the U.S. Civil War was not about slavery but about other things–and got short when challenged on it: "What do you want me to say about...
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School teacher assigned 5th graders "to pretend to be a white slave master'
A fifth grade teacher in Conemaugh Township, Pennsylvania gave students a worksheet with the instructions to "pretend to be a white slave master." The worksheet was titled "Auction! Winnings to the...
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Rep. Byron Donalds suggests slavery had upsides
Hoping to become Trump's VP pick, Republican Congressperson from Florida Byron Donalds described slavery as an economic boon and good for the enslaved. Economists suggest he review ethics, not...
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