Today is Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's 70th wedding anniversary. Jimmy Carter has been battling cancer, so he thought he would never reach this impressive milestone. In an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he said:
"There was one period...
Since our President-elect Donald Trump is a scary, orange menace, we may be looking for some escapism. Here are some movies about politics and politicians to give you a bit of a break from the upcoming...
This Friday, Donald Trump will take the presidential Oath of Office in an Inauguration Ceremony. It takes just 35 words to officially make someone president of the United States. It is shown in Article II,...
Miss Major Griffin-Gacy has been fighting for transgender rights for over 40 years. Today at the age of 75, she continues to be on the front lines fighting for equality and respect.
Miss Major was born...
One week ago, fellow writer Kayla Renee?wrote about a recent attempt to push religious propaganda to students via textbooks in Texas. While this vote was briefly stayed, the Board voted two days later to approve...
A group of New York area Girl Scouts celebrated Women's History Month with a lesson they will never forget. They were selected out of 300 other groups for a photo shoot where they fully transformed themselves into iconic women...
A newly discovered newspaper clipping from 1934 shows a disturbing comparison between Adolf Hitler and President-elect Donald Trump:
"Adolf hitler, out of prison, took advantage of the groans. He told people that he would make Germany 'great'...
Though it was never announced until this week, archaeologists found over 140 bones believed to be of African descent last summer under a Harlem, New York, bus depot, standing in the face of a decade's...
George Washington, the first U.S. president and one of America's founding fathers, had a very different point of view than President Donald Trump when it came to the issue of religious tolerance.
While Trump has made his...
Anytime there is a sudden loss of life due to gun violence in this country, the debate over sensible gun control begins again, usually in vain. Those in favor of more controls on who can...
The COVID-19 coronavirus is now a full-fledged pandemic.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1237777021742338049
A functional government would have begun putting the necessary precautions in place at the outbreak's first sign.
We had months to prepare.
Yet the Trump administration did nothing.
Despite all the...
Many Americans recall being assigned Harper Lee's classic novel, ?To Kill a Mockingbird? (TKMB), while studying English in junior or senior high school. This adored classic tale takes place in Maycomb, Alabama and follows a...
A mug in the Auschwitz museum held a surprise inside for the last 70 years. The mug was found to have a false bottom inside which concealed a gold necklace and ring. This mug was one...
A piece of debris found off the shore of Mozambique is believed to be a piece of MH370, the Malaysian airliner that disappeared two years ago.
An American tourist, Blaine Gibson, found the piece on a...
When I was in my early 20s, I attended?a dinner party hosted by a friend of a friend. This was a crowd of white, college educated young people discussing all kinds of topics while the?alcohol...
President Barack Obama is the first United States president to self-identify as a feminist. Now, we have p***y-grabbing President-elect Donald Trump being sworn in tomorrow.
Last year, President Obama wrote an essay on feminism for Glamor magazine....
What defines a living treasure?
In compiling this list, I settled on the following criteria. A living treasure is someone who has:
1) demonstrated a lifetime commitment to changing the world for the better;
2) reached a certain...
In tapes recorded by the former First Lady Jackie Kennedy just months after the death of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, she revealed her suspicions that President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination.
Recordings...
The Confederate Flag: Symbol of history and heritage or symbol of hate and racism? Hopefully we are finally coming to realize in this country that it is the latter and not the former. The move...
When the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened yesterday, September 24, in Washington, both President Obama and Former President George W. Bush were invited to speak.
In front of 7,000 official guests, Obama repeated...
