Earlier this summer, the Bradley Foundation convened a panel of distinguished individuals on the occasion of the Foundation’s awards ceremony in Washington. All the panelists were past recipients of ...

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. – Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Freedom is precious. Not only is it essential for the full ...

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. Many times, in telling the stories of Brooklyn’s heroes and villains, and the Brooklyn they helped create, the topic of slavery has come up. It’s an ...

2022, you could say, was a return to normal. At least what was considered normal before the peak in 2020. Jeff German, a veteran investigative reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was stabbed to ...

Alexander Hamilton published political pamphlets. Benjamin Franklin did, too. So did Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and numerous other ...

Nelson Mandela was notoriously stubborn or obstinate — both words that are generally used to connote negative qualities — and unwilling to recognise new conditions that ought to influence proposed ...

Dabbling in the slave trade had been a successful profession in the early 1700’s, and having slaves, a practice among New York’s Dutch farmers and wealthy merchants, had been a labor-saving and ...