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BBC Hulton Picture Library What was Emmeline Pankhurst’s family like? Both of Emmeline Pankhurst’s parents were abolitionists. Her father was on a committee that welcomed American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher to England, while her mother read her bedtime stories from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Both also supported equal suffrage. Her parents’ dedication to ending social injustices likely shaped her own commitment to the women’s suffrage movement. Why was Emmeline Pankhurst so influential? ...

https://www.nysun.com/national/let-the-gop-follow-tim-scotts-lead-and-stand-his/91502/ Let’s talk about the extraordinary importance of Senator Tim Scott’s rebuttal to President Biden’s speech last week to the Senate. When can anyone remember a rebuttal speech that was more important, more significant, and more insightful, and, by the way, that got better ratings than what Tim Scott achieved last week? Usually the rebuttal is looked at as a potential president graveyard. I’m not talking abo...

  Share Source: Senate Television via AP A Texas county’s Democratic Party is refusing to accept the resignation of Lamar County Democratic Party Chairman Gary O’Connor, who announced he would step down after calling Sen. Tim Scott an “oreo with no real principles.” O’Connor, who is white, made the comment in a Facebook post after the GOP senator’s rebuttal to President Biden’s address to Congress last week.  He later apologized for using the “racist term” against the black...

May 7, 2021 Nearly three decades ago, when Eric Adams decided he wanted to someday be mayor of New York City, he started a journal of observations about local governance, making periodic entries before bed. He has now filled 26 notebooks. The long arc of Mr. Adams’s career — from the son of a Queens house cleaner to a reform-driven New York City police officer, from state senator to Brooklyn borough president and now a leading mayoral candidate — is an ode to personal discipline. By his t...

By Tommy ChristopherMay 6th, 2021, 9:24 am Marc Lamont Hill muted former State Rep. Vernon Jones when he called Hill “dumb” during a heated segment on critical race theory and rattled off a list of names that he didn’t call his guest. Jones, who announced his candidacy for governor of Georgia last month after switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican at the Trump rally that preceded the deadly Capitol insurrection, was a guest on Tuesday’s edition of Black News Chan...

Can You Hear Me Now? is a book by Celina Caesar-Chavannes.(Random House Canada) Can You Hear Me Now? is a memoir by entrepreneur and former politician Celina Caesar-Chavannes. Caesar-Chavannes was the first Black MP to represent the riding of Whitby, Ont. But her political career wasnt easy, and she was known for speaking out about social and racial injustices within political institutions and in her community. She eventually decided to leave the party she ran for, the Liberals.  Can You He...

Cancel culture has given a free pass to the liberals who launched racial attacks against Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., after his rebuttal speech to President Bidens addresslast week. In his speech, Scott Almost immediately after Scotts speech ended, liberals on Twitter caused the term " Uncle Tim" — a play on the racial slur "Uncle Tom" — to trend for hours on the social media network until the site forcibly took it down. However, whereas conservatives would have been raked through the hot coal...

Have some respect, black people—if not for Sen. Tim Scott, then for yourselves. The epithet “Uncle Tom” isn’t a slur white people use against black people. It’s used by black people against other black people. Those who dislike black people must, I’m sure, watch such foolishness with glee. It turned my stomach to see “Uncle Tim”—a play on Uncle Tom—trend on Twitter in response to the brilliant speech by Scott, R-S.C., last Wednesday night. Scott delivered the Republican resp...

America Is Not Racist!!!

Gary OConnor, the Lamar County Democratic Party chairman, said he was deeply sorry for using the racist term and announced his plans to step down. But his colleagues refused.