By Samuel Warde on August 11, 2014
History, Videos
History, Videos, Women's Issues
BuzzFeed Yellow presents 9 badass facts about first ladies. 1. Abigail Adams, Second First Lady: Abigail fought for gender equality when she wrote a famous letter to her husband encouraging him to “remember the ladies.” 2. Dolley Madison, Fourth First Lady: When the British burned down the White House during the War of 1812 Dolley […]
By Samuel Warde on July 18, 2014
Barack Obama, History, Videos
Barack Obama, Flashback Friday, Videos
In this edition of Flashback Friday, we see a 29-year-old, Barack Obama in a television commercial for TBS’ Black History Month. The editor in chief for the Harvard Law Review at the time, Obama talked in the video about Charles Hamilton Houston, who was an NAACP legal director and Howard Law School professor. Believed to […]
By Samuel Warde on July 6, 2014
History, Videos
Activism, History, Videos
George Takei gave an incredible TED Talk in June of this year. Although the talk was at a TEDx event, the TED editors decided to post it among their selections on their homepage. As the TED website reports: “When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for […]
By Samuel Warde on June 28, 2014
History, Videos
History, Videos
Here’s a collection of 13 sickest presidential insults…. err ahhh, we meant famous quotes they didn’t teach you in high school. Too bad, because these are awesome. When Abraham Lincoln,Thomas Jefferson, Gerald Ford, Ulysses S.Grant and John Quincy Adams – to name just a few of our past presidents, got down and dirty they didn’t […]
By Samuel Warde on June 26, 2014
History, Videos
History, Videos
Former Vice-President Dick Cheney found himself under fire earlier this month with the Off the Grid presentation of “The Life and Crimes of Dick Cheney.” As noted on his YouTube page, Jesse Ventura takes on “Five Deferments” Dick Cheney noting “he’s back, and this time he’s defending torture! Jesse Ventura may be #OffTheGrid, but he isn’t […]