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Contrary to a widespread misconception, King did not favor absolute nonviolence, nor does his reasoning always require practitioners of civil disobedience to accept punishment. But he also strongly opposed rioting.

Trump’s right that Lincoln could have compromised. The results would have been unthinkable.

Trump’s right that Lincoln could have compromised. The results would have been unthinkable.

Pace the Communist Party, the contradictions and inadequacies of American democracy are not due to the nature of democracy per se, but due to the weakness and incompleteness of American democracy.

The left-wing hootenanny that is the Melissa Harris-Perry show went off the rails again on Saturday morning, with the host and her National Public Radio guest somehow comparing illegal aliens in Flint, Michigan to the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act. As if someone in America was enslaving the illegal immigrants?  The topic was the Flint water scandal, a favorite MSNBC obsession. But Harris-Perry and longtime NPR Latino USA host (and radical activist) Maria Hinojosa were freaki...

One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request.

ANGOLA — Sojourner Truth spoke out against slavery on the steps of the first Steuben County Courthouse in 1861; her statue stands in front of the second and Steuben Superior

So what exactly should we do when people consider extant art racist?

Sarah Loguen Fraser was the daughter of abolitionists and one of the first African American female doctors trained after the Civil War.

Wed 9/27 @ 7PM Yet another Cleveland history program at the Music Box Supper Club tackles its topic in a different way. Instead of experts... READ MORE