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By Colin Benjamin Photos: Wikimedia Commons Today, America is celebrating the 250th anniversary of its independence after revolting against Colonial England. But amid the July 4th celebrations, and…
By Bob Topper\PeaceVoice Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots Thomas Jefferson studied and embraced Enlightenment philosophy, the ideas of the Age of Reason. And they inspired him when he wrote…
Benjamin: "The police 'Slave Patrol' system was created to protect the profits of these slaveholders who feared slave uprisings would economically disrupt their 'peculiar institution.” Photo: YouTube This…
Pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells. Source: YouTube Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., knew the power of media and once observed: "The brutality with which officials would have quelled…
Scholars of public policy and political science understand that to enact an unpopular or questionable policy and to gain public support for such a policy, a crisis must…
