Hillsdale students should celebrate Black History Month. Courtesy | Flickr Hillsdale College’s values are consistent with those of Black History Month, yet the College Democrats were the only group on campus to take notice of the occasion in 2022. If Hillsdale students truly believe that the American founding principles of liberty and equality are exceptional,...
A fifth-grade social-studies teacher in Philadelphia recently forced students to celebrate Black History Month by honoring “black communism” and Angela Davis, a communist activist and former Black Panther. The news created a stir on social media but should come as no surprise to those who have followed the radical agenda infecting every level of America’s...
I like reading biographies how I like eating cantaloupe; cracking open the outer exterior of an individual, and then scooping out the juicy truths of his or her life. While reading the success stories of Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Madam CJ Walker, and Beyoncé I, of course, pictured my own biography in the near future....
One of the ironies of the “separate, but equal” era of America was the large number of scientific achievements made by black Americans who often had much less access to education than their white counterparts. While George Washington Carver may be the most famous to come from that time, black scientists have been credited with...
Once-thriving black communities were deteriorating. And Ida B. Wells was witnessing it. The South’s counterrevolution, the fading importance of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the 1893 economic depression turned booming postbellum neighborhoods into ghettos and reignited racial hostility that motivated hundreds of lynchings. Wells burst into this scene during the 1890s with industrious investigative journalism covering...