| Jun 10, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFollowing the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, national unrest has brought millions of protestors out from coast to coast. Most have been peaceful — but not all. Cop cars and police precincts have been set ablaze, stores looted and vandalized,...
| Feb 19, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFebruary is supposed to be Black History Month — but this month, there hasn’t been much celebrating. Day after day, the news has been consumed with the impeachment trial and its aftermath, as well as the ups and downs of the 2020 presidential race, which now includes...
| Nov 27, 2019 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThomas Jefferson may have written that all men were created equal in the Declaration of Independence. But he, along with so many of his fellow plantation owners, was still complicit in the institution of slavery. Jefferson’s famous Monticello plantation, a picturesque...
| Aug 30, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyWhile our president’s moral character seems stuck somewhere between boorish and brutish, it’s only fair to note that he also has an aesthetic dimension. This surprising side of Trump popped out several days after the Charlottesville attacks by raging white...
| Feb 3, 2016 | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyCarter G. Woodson was born in Virginia, 10 years after the fall of the Confederacy. Working as a sharecropper and a miner, he rarely had time to attend school until the age of 20. But he sure made up for lost time. Woodson would devote the rest of his life to...
