On May 13, 1985, flames and ashes rose to the sky as members of the Philadelphia Police Department flew away in helicopters, patting themselves on the back for a good day’s work. Trailing behind them were the corpses of 11 people (six adults, and five children), 61...
1650-1917: Some or all of present Ukraine under control of Russian Empire. 1918-1945: Major political struggles within Ukraine over the workers’ 1917 revolution in Russia. A significant part of Ukraine joins newly formed Soviet Union. With the bureaucratization of the...
Today, February 20th is the anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s death. Douglass was a former slave who became an important figure in the struggle for the abolition of slavery. He was known for being a brilliant and fearless leader and speaker who fought tooth and nail...
While politicians in the United States are always talking about how our society is based on true democracy and “consent of the governed,” the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, suppression of the Black vote has been a consistent feature of the U.S....
80 years ago, on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, resulting in the relocation and internment of an estimated 120,000 people of Japanese background during the Second World War. It was a sudden mass incarceration,...
