More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/ Legacy Admission to these families ? so deserving https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to---day is, to me, a matter of astonishmen ...
From as early as 1802 Captain William Layman had suggested that the colony of Trinidad would benefit greatly from free Chinese labour. It was felt that free Chinese labour would be a suitable substitute for African slave labour and that these “free civilized men” would set the African slave ...
George Washington's first recorded order for tea dates to December of 1757, when he wrote to England seeking "6 lb. best Hyson Tea" and "6 lb. best Green Ditto." Sick and having arrived back at Mount Vernon from the frontier, Washington sent a note to his neighbor Sally requesting some f ...
Supreme Court Decision Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principle ...
“So often, we just accept that money, power and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level.”
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