Rising star in Democratic Party first Latino to deliver keynote address
By Sarah Aarthun, Ed Lavandera and Mariano Castillo, CNN
Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) -- A young rising star. A keynote speech on the Democratic Party's biggest stage. Is it 2004 again?
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro gave the most significant speech of his political career on Tuesday night when he became the first Latino to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
DH allows for a recovery of Civil War data
“By combing through newly digitized census data from the 19th century, J. David Hacker, a demographic historian from Binghamton University in New York, has recalculated the death toll” of the Civil War.
A new interpretation of Emancipation?
Jim Downs’s Sick From Freedom reexamines the Emancipation period and the experience of the the freedmen to come up with some startling statistics. Perhaps this is the story we don’t wish to see? But, if true, it definitely needs to be told.
Avery Brooks, an Excerpt from Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis
Avery Brooks, an Excerpt from Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis
Performed on Def Poetry Jam shortly after Ossie Davis’s death.
Sekou Sundiata, Come On and Bring On the Reparations
