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Commentary: The hidden story of when two Black U-Maine students were tarred and feathered By Karen Sieber, University of MaineThe Conversation Share One cold April night in 1919, at around 2 a.m., a mob of 60 rowdy white students at the University of Maine surrounded the dorm room of Samuel and Roger Courtney in Hannibal Hamlin Hall. The mob planned to attack the two Black brothers from Boston in retaliation for what a newspaper article described at the time as their “domineering manner and ...

The hidden story of when 2 Black UMaine students were tarred and feathered A humanities specialist at the University of Maine spent 5 years tracking down information about the Red Summer of 1919, the name given to the nationwide wave of violence against Black Americans that year. By Karen SieberUniversity of Maine Share One cold April night in 1919, at around 2 a.m., a mob of 60 rowdy white students at the University of Maine surrounded the dorm room of Samuel and Roger Courtney in Hannibal H...

Intentionally forgotten stories, or those buried out of shame or trauma, exist everywhere.

February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves themselves fought for freedom that was only at best was in the promissory note of the Emancipation Proclamation. Those men, and women in the case of Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for freedom for African Americans and all others who benefited from what they fought for: women, Native Americans, Mexican America...

23 August 2015 In the past few months we have witnessed a big debate in the Republican Party regarding immigration. This is not a new phenomenon, over the past few decades the debate has come and gone, but it has returned with a vengeance as Donald Trump, the billionaire developer and current GOP frontrunner has made immigration, or rather a virulent anti-immigration platform the centerpiece of his campaign. This has other Republican candidates scrambling to find a position close enough to Trum...

Here’s What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party The modern GOP isnt the first party to embrace huge conspiracies. But the lessons should be sobering. Digital Public Library of America By ZACHARY KARABELL Link Copied Zachary Karabell is a contributing editor at Politico Magazine. The rise of QAnon beliefs in Republican politics has been treated with a degree of shock: How could a fringe Internet conspiracy theory have worked its way into the heart of a major political party? The ideas behind ...

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Robert Ariail for January 29, 2021 January 27, 2021 Shod  about 2 months ago I understand that 30,000 Republicans left the party after January 6. If it keeps up, they’ll join the Whigs and the Know Nothing party.

Why cant Donald Trump be more like Millard Fillmore? Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor © Getty Why cant Donald Trump be more like Millard Fillmore? Facing his waning days in office, President Trump has released a virtual torrent of pardons, many of them going to perjurious pals, corrupt political allies, extended family and outright war criminals. A much earlier lame-duck president, also resentful over the denial of a second term, took a different approach to pardons. Rather ...

And denying even knowing parnas. >> i dont know parnas other than i had pictures taken which i do with thousands of people dont know what hes about. dont know where he comes from know nothing about him. >> you have reason to believe vice president pence was tasked at that meeting with getting president zelensky to announce investigations about mr. biden. he knew about that >> he knew everything. >> reporter: the justice department says thats 100% false and the vice presidents office points to wi...