A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

As he celebrated the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865, Frederick Douglass emphasized that pervasive racial discrimination remained an obstacle to the attainment of equal ...

Former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi,has called for the abolition of results collation centres in Nigeria, citing the need for a more transparent ...

A group of Jahangirnagar University (JU) students started an indefinite hunger strike today (2 February), demanding the elimination of the ward quota in university admissions. The strike, organised by ...

And there is precedent for it: In 1833, the United Kingdom passed the Slavery Abolition Act across much of the British Empire. It paid to liberate its enslaved population by compensating slave ...

Just over 30 years ago, when Kurt Evans was 8 years old, he watched a movie called the The Last Dragon. It’s a campy karate ...

A recent book, entitled The Popes and Slavery written by Fr. Joel S. Panzer (Alba House, 1996), shows that the Popes did condemn racial slavery as early as 1435. Most of the information below is ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site at 1230 North Delaware Street invites us to consider the "UNCONVENTIONAL" roles of ...

Maryland has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...