May 3, 2022 – With news of a leaked US Supreme Court opinion – the outrage at the leak seems to be garnering more attention than the actual opinion – that is if it is the real opinion. Here are the facts: If Roe v Wade is overturned, this could…
April 24, 2021 – It took 106 years, but President Joseph R. Biden is the very first US president to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide – a genocide committed by Ottoman Turks in 1915. For those who are unaware of the religious affiliation of the Armenian people – Armenia was the…
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.
March 23, 2020 – Throughout American history women have been subservient to men. In fact, it wasn’t until around 1839, that the Married Women’s Property Acts began to expand the rights of married women–giving them some “limited” rights to act independent of their husbands–as historically women could not own property, and…
