Dr. Ossian Sweet’s Black Life Mattered
...his parents sent him north. He worked his way through prep school and college at Wilberforce University in Ohio, the first black university owned and operated by black Americans. He...
Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?
...a surprise to Americans that Canadians, too, claim Tubman as a national hero. The “North Star” of freedom had been a haven for escaped slaves and free blacks since the...
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“Birth of a Nation”: 100 Years Later
...as they pass a bill permitting the intermarriage of blacks and whites. We can’t hear what’s going on—The Birth of a Nation is a silent film—but the scene is identified...
What If the World Were Flat and Columbus Had Fallen Off the Edge of the Earth?
...the relatively poorer one. The reason? The North was given more “inclusive” institutions, ones that valued entrepreneurialism, egalitarianism, and political freedom–qualities conducive to creating inventions and industries that would propel...