When the President and His Chef Feuded Over Cold Beans
In 2011, the New York Times memorialized the late French chef René Verdon as having “revolutionized” White House cuisine. As an Executive Chef during the...
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Who Really Designed the American Dime?
When was the last time you looked—really looked—at a dime? It is the smallest coin in U.S. circulation, so it takes a keen eye to...
Viola Liuzzo
Viola Gregg Liuzzo was born on April 11, 1925 in the small town of California, Pennsylvania. Her father, Heber Ernest Gregg, worked in a coal...
It took the kidnapping, rape, and death of a white woman to bring down the KKK
How power, sexism, and male impunity toppled a grand wizard On the night of March 15, 1925, Madge Oberholtzer received an urgent telephone call. It...
12 Bible Verses That Supports Brutal Slavery – Dear African, Did You Know This?
Throughout the history of mankind, there have been various accounts of man’s enslavement by his fellow man. Stories of brutality and wickedness of one race...
Brothers in arms – Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria
Several years ago in Johannesburg, I met a Jewish woman whose mother and sister were murdered in Auschwitz. After their deaths, she was forced into...
The KKK started a branch just for women in the 1920s, and half a million joined
Not long after American women won the right to vote, a woman in Greene County, Indiana received an invitation to hear a lecture. All “the...
How White Mob Murdered And Burnt 40-Year-Old Black Man In Omaha, 1919
During the “Red Summer” of 1919, a wave of racial and labor violence swept through the United States. The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 was...
How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery
During the period of American slavery, how did slaveholders manage to balance their religious beliefs with the cruel facts of the “peculiar institution“? As shown...