It was November 7, 1938.
A 17-year-old ethnically Polish Jew living in France named Herschel Grynszpan had learned the Nazi party had exiled his parents to Poland from their home in Hanover, Germany.
Enraged, Grynszpan retaliated by shooting Ernst vom Rath, a...
Last week's New York Times piece debunking Donald Trump's oft-repeated lie “I built what I built myself” may have gotten somewhat buried amid the coverage frenzy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's hearing and eventual confirmation.
Even though Trump and the...
Maurice Osborne is the man credited with stopping the sexual assault of an unidentified woman, which took place at around 11:40 a.m. on Wednesday, August 12th. The man, identified as 40-year-old Alvaro Dennica, had allegedly been fondling himself...
Naive society asks questions like "why didn't you just say no" or "why didn't you tell someone." These signs explain why. They show how young minds are manipulated and coerced.
This is why the survival rates for African Americans is so dismal in this country: a DeKalb County security guard is being charged with what even the local police are calling ?murder? for recently shooting...
Many people abstain from voting in mid-term elections.
They see them as irrelevant.
Well, if you, or someone you know, is considering staying away from the polls until 2020, you might be interested in knowing that Monday,...
Of all the outrageous cases of violence that have taken place since Donald Trump's upset victory, few have been nearly as terrifying as what happened to Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald. On the night of December 15-16,...
Did Dallas, Texas police officer Amber Guyger accidentally park on the wrong floor of her South Side Flats apartment complex and enter Botham Jean's unlocked apartment assuming it was hers?
Did Guyger struggle with the lock before...
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Monday December 26, 2016, started out as an ordinary evening...
In January of 2011, Raymond Buys, 15, began a three-month training course that was supposed to train him to be a game ranger. But that's not quite what happened.Buy's mother said she sent him to...
Ever since North Carolina passed its outrageously discriminatory and outrageously unconstitutional "bathroom bill," the state's LGBT community has had a lot of reason to live in fear. In the months after House Bill 2 was...
The Mystery
Controversy continues to swirl around President Trump and his connections to Russia's power elite. Did the Trump team collude with the Russians during the campaign? Did the Russian's help Trump to get elected?
As the...
Property is more important than People.
To believe Michael Brown's killing was justified, you must believe the above statement. ?Earlier today, the Ferguson Chief of Police held a press conference where he revealed the name of...
President-elect Trump has barely begun his tenure and already signs are becoming evident that he is going to find himself in that most exclusive of executive clubs: the nation's list of impeached presidents.
The word impeach...
Late Friday, The Washington Post released a report alleging that the CIA confirmed that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers as well as other high-level officials connected to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
According to the...
Grace Brown began Project Unbreakable with people she knew who had been sexually assaulted. The project quickly escalated and now includes more than 2,000 survivors from all over the country holding signs with the quotes...
It was amply demonstrated long before August's outbreak of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia that white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis are among the worst people in the world. What happened in August only underlined it....
America's gun culture is out of control. We have seen the horrific school shooting in Oregon at the start of this month and the two school shootings last week. Almost daily there are gun "accidents" or...
The death penalty has always been a source of great debate in America, and that debate is about get more intense. According to CNN, Arkansas plans to execute eight men over the course of 10...
On Wednesday, the body of controversial Republican state Rep. Dan Johnson was discovered near Mount Washington. The Kentucky legislator died from apparent suicide by a semi-automatic handgun. His death happened a day after Johnson denied...
