Reconstructing the Reconstruction – the Aftermath of Slavery, and the Continuing Fight for Equal Justice

How Reconstruction was a new beginning for the formerly enslaved but the fight for equal justice had just begun – including the right to vote, be free of poll taxes, and the continuing struggle for women and notably black women to vote. Discussion of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, Fifteenth Amendment allowing ‘men’ to vote – and the long awaited Nineteenth Amendment allowing ‘white’ Women to Vote – Culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 taking away all impediments of voting to All Women and Men of Voting age and eliminating literacy tests and poll taxes to voting. Discussion of 19th century presidents who kept slaves during and while in office in the White House is also discussed.

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“The Altered States of America: the Psychological Effects of Donald Trump”

How and Why Donald Trump Could Lie to the American People with Impunity and Without Remorse. What that says about the psychopathology of the person, and why so many people still support and even vote for a man that lies with impunity, and denigrates veterans and the disabled. What that says about the man himself – Trump – and the people that support him. Dr. Norrholm, a translational neuroscientist, brings the many psychopathologies of Trump to the forefront.

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