One of the best known speeches by Frederick Douglass is “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” – delivered in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. The speech, given at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was filled with biting oratory in which the abolitionist leader told his […]
An early morning fire at a black church in Charlotte, North Carolina, is being investigated as arson according to Senior Fire Investigator David Williams. The Charlotte Observer reports that an emergency 911 call was received at about 12:30 a.m. from a resident in a nearby apartment complex advising that the Briar Creek Road Baptist Church […]
President Obama used the N-word during an interview to help make his case that the United States has not overcome its history or racism. The President discussed the debate over race and guns in the wake of the racially motivated shooting death of nine black church members in Charleston last week. “The legacy of slavery, […]
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter appeared on the “The Eric Metaxas Show” to promote her new anti-immigration book, “Adios, America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.” She really has a way with words, doesn’t she? Coulter blamed Romney’s 2012 defeat on immigration. She said there aren’t enough white voters in […]
Chester Hanks, son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, is defending his use of the “N-word” in a string of posts on his now deleted Instagram account. Hanks is a rapper who goes by the stage name Chet Haze and Yahoo’s The Insider reports that “What began as a means of promoting his new song quickly […]