Black History Month: Is it still necessary?

Dr. Carter G. Woodsen, the historian responsible for founding Black History Month might not agree, but Free Press Columnist, Rochelle Riley thinks the time has come to end Black History Month. "For years now, there...

A Witness to History, He Served 36 years in the White House

  From Watoday.com: For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land. Mr....

Ford Was No Fan of Bush -- He Should've Said So

"The death of former President Gerald Ford was sure to bring controversy. Did pardoning Nixon help to heal the nation, as Ford put it, or did it just send the message that presidents can get away with anything? I'm with the latter school of thought -- our present circumstance...

Brown, Ford, Castro

"RIP The Godfather of Soul, Mr. James Brown, the mouth that roared, the veritable voice of R&B, died on Christmas Day. It was a case of auspicious timing. Now Christmas will ring with his voice as an alternative to all the Christmas Carols."

Ford's Close Call

"12-26) 21:26 PST Washington -- But for some quick action, Gerald R. Ford's presidency, and his life, could have ended amid gunshots outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel on the afternoon of Sept. 22,...

Former President Ford dies at 93

"LOS ANGELES - Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, former first lady Betty Ford said...

The Vietnam War was 10 years of American involvement. Approximately 1962 to 1...

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