Politics

The Electoral College was a compromise, and that compromise was slavery

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The forgotten Black security guard who discovered the Watergate break in

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How the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party started (includes Fannie Lou Hamer’s famous speech)

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The time Jesse Jackson ran for President back in 1984

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The 1969 Draft Lottery (Vietnam War)

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Kirsten Gillibrand talking about her white privilege

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How Donald Trump came up with the slogan “Make America Great Again”

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Roe v. Wade debate (back in 1972)

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The moment most Black people went from Republicans to Democrats

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How the MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) changed national politics, 1964

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How John F. Kennedy became president strictly because of the Black vote (1960)

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“My best friend is a black man”

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Why Andrew Johnson could be the worst president America ever had

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This is how the first Black Chicago mayor, Harold Washington, got elected

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Clarence Thomas: The story of a Conservative Supreme Court Justice

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This is how the First Black Mayor in a Major City got elected

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How Atlanta’s first Black Mayor gave Government contracts to Black-owned businesses

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Lyndon B Johnson civil rights bill passed

Here’s how Lyndon B. Johnson got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed through the Senate

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FBI’s involvement on Malcolm X’s assassination

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This Black man & White man share the same grandfather

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The irreparable damage Andrew Johnson did to the freed slaves

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