The iconic preacher, who carried the Civil Rights ball in the media, after the loss of Martin Luther King. Jr...who ran for President twice, and continued as a voice of Black America, was 84 years old.... The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a charismatic preacher who became the … [Read more...] about Jesse Jackson Has Passed…..
Black Americans
Juneteenth….
Juneteenth (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Deriving its name from combining June and nineteenth, it is celebrated on the anniversary of the order by Major … [Read more...] about Juneteenth….
US Population growth is mostly with minorities…Update*….
That's the news from the new Census data.... This is an acceleration in the changing racial makeup of America that is unexpected so soon.... For the first time in the history of the country’s census taking, the number of White people in the United States is widely … [Read more...] about US Population growth is mostly with minorities…Update*….
Alexander Hamilton Stephens’ “Cornerstone Speech” — promoting the new Confederate States Constitution and government — in Savannah on 21 March 1861…
… The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present … [Read more...] about Alexander Hamilton Stephens’ “Cornerstone Speech” — promoting the new Confederate States Constitution and government — in Savannah on 21 March 1861…