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Revolutionary Slaveholders

Each year, many Americans celebrate the 4th of July. On that day in 1776, it is said that “The Land of the Free” was...
Oscar Blayton

Trump is a Moron, but Most Americans Don’t Know Who Burned the White House

Donald Trump made headlines with his ignorance again when he accused Canada of burning the White House during the War of 1812. Most school children...
Oscar Blayton

COMMENTARY: Manifest Destiny in Modern America

One weekend evening in 1966, while traveling from Camp LeJeune in Eastern North Carolina to Myrtle Beach, S.C., my Marine buddies and I began...
Oscar Blayton

Passing

In 1995, a journalist I know was interviewing the First Lady of Virginia, Susan Brown Allen, wife of the new governor at the time,...
Oscar Blayton

If Education is the Answer, Why Do Black Women with College Degrees Have Higher Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates Than White Women Who Dropped...

by Oscar Blayton, Esq. Most people of color can point to at least one moment when they realize that popular culture in America distorts the...
Oscar Blayton

The Second Amendment and White Anxiety

There has been yet another school shooting in America. The multiple murders at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida mark the 18th...
Oscar Blayton

A Gentle Scolding of a Dear Ally

In January of 1963, I was in my senior year at my all-Black high school and required to take a course in U.S. Government....
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