Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “The deleted paragraph demonstrates how kicking the can down the road never solves the problem. More often, it makes ...

The resolution declaring independence was approved on July 2nd, not July 4th. On Friday, June 7, 1776 the Resolution for ...

The Fourth of July reminds us of how precious and dearly bought our freedoms are -- and why they’re worth protecting. So let ...

Photo: Getty Images North America Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

The Woodson Center’s “1776 Unites” argues that the Revolution’s democratic ideals, imperfectly realized at the founding, launched a long arc of progress, visible from the Civil War through ...

When the pedophile rapist of Sally Hemings, namely Thomas Jefferson- who enslaved 175 Black persons in 1776 and increased that number to 267 by 1822- wrote the initial drafts of ...

The slave ban was widely ignored when Oglethorpe left Georgia for good in 1743, and its enforcement dwindled in his absence. By the time American colonists declared independence in 1776, slavery ...

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery By RUSS BYNUM The Associated Press, Updated February 17, 2024, 12:59 a.m.

But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but ...