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Why Do Some People Keep Insisting We're Post-Racial?

We have a long history of advocating for 'traditional values,' especially when those values have racial animosity at their core.

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Who in the Middle East Would Jesus Bomb?

Neither side in Syria has refrained from waging a brutal war on men, women, and children.

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Oliver Law: Integrating the Military and Our Hearts

You know Colin Powell's name. You should know Oliver Law's, too.

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An Abolitionist Finally Gets His Due: Why Tommy Lee Jones Should Win on Oscar Night

Thaddeus Stevens has been trashed in classrooms, textbooks, and movies. Tommy Lee Jones' portrayal of him in "Lincoln" finally gets it right.

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Slavery-Era Solutions For Modern Problems? Emory's President Thinks So

The Three-Fifths Compromise as political genius? Makes you wonder where Emory University President James Wagner went to school.

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Teaching Outside the Textbook: From 'The Abolitionists' to a Two-Term Black President

Most children—and adults—learn little if anything about Abolitionism and its many heroes.

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The Emancipation Proclamation Story That Should Be Taught in Schools

The real emancipation story offers useful lessons about people power during a time of slavery and for today.

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The Inconvenient Truth About 'Lincoln'

"Honest Abe," along with many known and unknown black Americans and their white allies, failed to make Lincoln's final cut.