Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith seeks to whitewash history in the name of an anti-intellectual celebration of American greatness.

US President Donald Trump orders to reopen a notorious and terrible prison recently, has caused widespread repercussions. The ...

Ryan Coogler’s film about twin gangsters trying to strike it rich in the Jim Crow South rapidly swerves toward supernatural ...

The U.S. Constitution is not a suggestion. It is the most sacred document in our country's history. Under the government it ...

Sri Lanka’s recently elected President, Anura Kumara Disanayake’s political coalition—the National People’s Power (NPP), won ...

We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living ...

On April 14, 2025, exactly 250 years after the founding of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (and nearly 160 years after the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), Donald ...

Because the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery “except as punishment for a crime,” many southern states passed laws that, in practice, allowed authorities to arrest Black people for minor ...

It was abolished in 2011 through the 15th amendment ... BNP wants the reinstatement of the 13th amendment that stipulates a non-party caretaker government headed by a chief adviser upon ...

But his words aren’t what abolished slavery. The 13th Amendment did that. The Seneca Falls Convention was monumental. But that’s not what ensured that millions of women could cast a ballot in ...