Leftist academics orchestrate smear of Texas history buff, paint an effort to highlight the state's slave history as the opposite
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2024 @ 10:15 am
By: Daily Wire
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Few public figures, in the last half of the twentieth century, have commanded as much world-wide attention as the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 12:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Navy announced this week that it would be renaming a ship named for oceanographic pioneer Matthew Fontaine Maury because of Maury’s ties to the Confederacy during the later years of his life.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 2:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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An interpreter for the Broadway show “The Lion King” is suing over his termination, claiming that he was fired because of his skin color.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 4:21 am
By: Daily Wire
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A long-time leader in national and North Carolina Republican politics has passed away. Dr. Ada Fisher served as the RNC’s Committeewoman for North Carolina for more than decade, elected in June of 2008 and re-elected in 2012. She died Friday October 7, 2022 at the age of 74.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Washington, D.C. neighborhood is attempting to rededicate an iconic street in the city’s Dupont Circle neighborhood in honor of the world’s first drag queen.
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2022 @ 10:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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You surely recognize the name Frederick Douglass and know the major role he played in American history after escaping his enslavement in Maryland in 1838.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 3:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I don’t write much about what happens inside of the classroom simply because there is so little information about it
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The term "birthright citizenship" refers to the idea that you can become a citizen of a country simply by being born there.
Published: Friday, November 23rd, 2018 @ 10:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) posthumously to John Arthur "Jack" Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight Champion of the World, for a Mann Act conviction that occurred during a period of racial tension more than a century ago.
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 4:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Frederick Douglass: Passionate Defender of Freedom and Individual Rights
Published: Saturday, February 10th, 2018 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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William Ellison Jr., born April Ellison, (c. April 1790 - December 5, 1861) was a cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, a free Negro and former slave who achieved considerable success in business before the American Civil War.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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I am from Georgia and knew Jimmy Carter when he was Governor. He changed little upon moving to become President of this great nation.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 8:08 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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An amendment to replace the States' influence in the federal government since the 17th Amendment was adopted.
Published: Sunday, July 26th, 2015 @ 6:14 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Yep. *The civil rights movement sure has come a long way.* Tim Scott, a black South Carolinian whose life epitomizes what MLK was talking about in his famous 1963 speech, is being attacked by one of the alleged heirs of King's legacy.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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After the Civil War, former slaves were encouraged to participate in a free-labor economy. But much of the South lay in ruins. It was difficult to find work, much less start enterprising careers.
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 1669 act was an early regulation of marriage in Carolina. The statute was enacted by the Lords Proprietors, who governed according to the Charter of 1663 (above). image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Sunday, June 30, a group of 37 organizations representing the higher education establishment took out an ad in the New York Times to run a remarkable statement, "Diversity in Higher Education Remains an Essential National Priority."
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 11:36 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement today on the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which is on display at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh through June 16.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 @ 6:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Let's recap. We have record unemployment, and one of the highest gas tax burdens in America.
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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History teaches us that the Ku Klux Klan was a violent organization aimed at terrorizing and intimidating former slaves. They operated as a secret society - a bunch of cowards with white gowns and masks, often carrying guns and a noose.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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"I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong." -- Zora Neale Hurston.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 4:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As I observed yesterday, the new budget plan for 2012-13 contains many good provisions. I admit to being frustrated, however, at the unwillingness of conferees to include $10 million to compensate victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program.
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1787, a group of brilliant Americans met in Philadelphia with the task of setting up a government to effectively manage a union of independent, and sovereign states.
Published: Monday, October 4th, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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