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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Normally, the act of jailing someone for being unable to pay fines would be classified under "things that are not okay," and "things long abandoned in the US," but for some towns in America, the...
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Monday December 26, 2016, started out as an ordinary evening...
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....
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...
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...
Many people have gained popularity on social media for their courageous and enlightening commentary on the tragic killing of Michael Brown and subsequent chaos in Ferguson, but no one has captured my attention the way...
In 1995, a movie called "White Man's Burden" hit the theaters. It was a story about an alternate reality where the middle and upper class was comprised mainly of blacks, while whites were the poor...
The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating a complaint they received about military personnel allegedly leaking pictures of their naked, female colleagues on a website that promotes sexual assault. In the last month, a dozen women reported...
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...
