January 24, 2019
Commentary
Columnist
King saw education as a liberating force, the very cornerstone of freedom, saying that “As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”
We have finished our annual celebration of the national holiday honoring the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by liberals, conservatives, and Vice…
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Commentary
Columnist
During the late 1860s and early 1870s, many African Americans were elected to Congress and an African American Senator, Hiram Revels, was elected from Mississippi. The Political Abolition Party and the Equal Rights Party ran Frederick Douglass for Vice President of the United States in 1856 and 1872.
Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, when African Americans were granted the right to vote, through the 15th Amendment in 1868, electoral politics…
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