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Amendments were intended to guarantee the freedom of former slaves and grant them certain rights. section 43 of the 13th amendment is one that often forgotten are overlooked. it was added after the civil war, to keep former and future confederates out of congress. heres what it states. no person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elect or of president and vice president or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states, or under any state, who, having previously tak...

Process. Heres a small portion of it. These videos are just part of the evidence in various Capitol Riot Court cases. So thats the reality, what you are seeing with your own eyes. Now for the unreality several republican lawmakers and rightwing fox hosts are desperate trying to bury what happened on that day, and you heard them already claim the attack was mostly peaceful, and the rioters were not armed or they were not really pro Trump Supporters and a mob. In fact, republican congressman andre...

Voters claims the u.s. constitution disqualifies republican congressman madison hawthorne from running again. they have filed their challenge with the state board of elections claiming that cawthorn failed to comply with the 13th amendment which states -- to support the constitution of the united states virtual having engaged in insurrection or rebellion. >> the challenge says cawthorns action create belief that he helped facilitate the insurrection, including a speech supporting trump at the ra...

So-called justice system does when it gets its claws into black boys, unquote. a really compelling thing for a victim of a crime to say. how often did you see this theme repeated, young black men convicted of a crime and then they never leave the legal system? >> i mean, more often than not. once you are within it, its a hampster wheel. and you really cannot get off because they have parole, theyve got the absence, the second chances. that chapter talks about the poin yens and moments of real hu...

Virginia put the first african-american woman in the state legislature in 1928. so i know the history, i know robert bird, the former senator, the late senator. i know what he did in the latter part of his life. yes, he was a member of the ku klux klan, but in the latter part of his life, he changed, and i know that he would understand better the idea that there is a moment in history when a simple rule, as i wrote in an op-ed piece in the "houston chronicle," a simple rule does not, if you will...

Its the smarter way to start investing. ♪ guilt guilt finally tonight throw back. black history month honoring the legacy of black americans across the span of u.s. history. 157 years ago today president abraham lincoln approved the joint resolution of congress submitting the 13th amendment to the state legislatures to formally abolish slavery. 13th amendment along with the 13 14th and 15th. amendments greatly expanding the

Georgia senator, and someone asked him what guided your decisions and he said i tried to think what abraham lincoln would have done for the south if he had lived. >> what did being magnanimous toward the south mean for lin lincoln. >> building them back up with a spirit of brotherbrotherhood, c for all, and securing military gains, removing the root causes of the war through political reform and including, of course, the end of slavery through the 13th amendment. economic expansion to move peopl...

>> oh, man. >> you are a legend there. >> morehouse is not ivory tower. >> its a great school. >> as a student of history though -- appreciate that. as a student of history, one of the things i see as one of the most dangerous combinations to thwart american progress is the combination of those who are explicitly bigoted and those who are worried about going too far. you can have someone actually co-write, co-author the 13th amendment, but think the 15th amendment goes too far. >> right. >> you ...

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