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Boston Will Remove A Statue Of A Freed Slave Kneeling At Abraham Lincoln’s Feet

Boston Will Remove A Statue Of A Freed Slave Kneeling At Abraham Lincoln’s Feet

A Boston committee has voted unanimously to remove a statue of a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet, ABC News reported. The monument, titled Emancipation, or more officially, The Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, has stood in Boston since 1879. The statue, which is an exact copy of a monument that had been […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Says He’s Done More For Black People Than Any President, Abraham Lincoln’s Results ‘Questionable’

Donald Trump Says He’s Done More For Black People Than Any President, Abraham Lincoln’s Results ‘Questionable’

Donald Trump says no president in American history has done more for the black community than him — including Abraham Lincoln, whose “end result,” Trump said, was “questionable.” Trump made the remarks in an interview with Harris Faulkner of Fox News, pushing back over criticism of his reaction to Black Lives Matter protests and reiterating […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Is A Better President Than Abraham Lincoln, 53 Percent Of Republicans Say

Donald Trump Is A Better President Than Abraham Lincoln, 53 Percent Of Republicans Say

A majority of Republicans believe that President Donald Trump is a superior leader to President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, according to a new poll conducted by Emerson/YouGov. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed said that Trump was a better president compared to 47 percent of Republicans who said they believed that […]

5y ago

Kanye West Explains Donald Trump Support During Sunday Service Sermon

Kanye West Explains Donald Trump Support During Sunday Service Sermon

Kanye West got political during a Sunday Service sermon in Salt Lake City, Utah. While defending his support for President Donald Trump and the Republican party, the “Gold Digger” singer revealed that a president whose face is on American money has greatly informed his political ideology. According to XXL Magazine, Kanye’s comments were in response […]

5y ago

Oscar Winner Jon Voight Calls Trump ‘Greatest President Since Abraham Lincoln’ And Twitter Is Not Impressed

Oscar Winner Jon Voight Calls Trump ‘Greatest President Since Abraham Lincoln’ And Twitter Is Not Impressed

Jon Voight, the 80-year-old Ray Donovan co-star who won a Best Actor Oscar in 1979 for his role in the anti-war film Coming Home, per IMDB.com, released a two-part video to his Twitter account on Friday. The clips praise Donald Trump and even compare Trump favorably to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President who effectively […]

5y ago

New Book Explores Whether Abraham Lincoln Was In A Gay Relationship With His Best Friend And Longtime Roommate

New Book Explores Whether Abraham Lincoln Was In A Gay Relationship With His Best Friend And Longtime Roommate

Abraham Lincoln was known as “Honest Abe” for his forthright nature, but a new book explores the possibility that the 16th president of the United States may have kept a very big secret: his sexuality. The sexual preference of the famously reticent president has been the subject of plenty of scholarly research, and a new […]

5y ago

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Abraham Lincoln Insulated In One Congressman’s Off-Color Joke

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Abraham Lincoln Insulated In One Congressman’s Off-Color Joke

“Did y’all hear the latest, late-breaking news from the Kavanaugh hearings?” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) went into a bizarre stand-up routine Thursday, Politico reports. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out that she was groped by Abraham Lincoln.” Cue rimshot. Norman was speaking during opening remarks at — and you won’t believe this — a political debate […]

6y ago

Buried Gold Legend Gets FBI’s Attention: Dozens Of Agents On Dig Site Where Folklore Puts Civil War Gold Bars

Buried Gold Legend Gets FBI’s Attention: Dozens Of Agents On Dig Site Where Folklore Puts Civil War Gold Bars

What do the FBI, Pennsylvania State officials and members of the treasure hunting group Finders Keepers have in common? Up until recently probably nothing, but local legend has dozens of FBI agents, along with state officials on a dig with a treasure hunting group in a rural area of Pennsylvania. A dig that grew out […]

6y ago

Donald Trump Claims Orrin Hatch Called Him The Greatest President Ever, Senator Begs To Differ

Donald Trump Claims Orrin Hatch Called Him The Greatest President Ever, Senator Begs To Differ

Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that Senator Orrin Grant Hatch once told him that he’s the greatest president ever in the history of the United States. In return, Trump called Hatch a “very spectacular man” and said that he “loves” the veteran politician. The president was with other Republicans at the 240-year-old The Greenbrier resort […]

6y ago

Full Details And Pictures From Reopening Of Hall Of Presidents With Additions Of Donald Trump And New Lobby

Full Details And Pictures From Reopening Of Hall Of Presidents With Additions Of Donald Trump And New Lobby

For almost an entire year, the Hall of Presidents in Magic Kingdom has been closed as it prepared for the addition of President Donald Trump. With rumors that it would reopen before Christmas, it appears as if the speculation ended up being correct. Late on Monday afternoon, the attraction reopened to guests with a number […]

7y ago

Johnny Depp Apologizes: ‘I Intended No Malice’ Says Megastar After Trump Assassination Joke

Johnny Depp Apologizes: ‘I Intended No Malice’ Says Megastar After Trump Assassination Joke

On Friday, Hollywood megastar Johnny Depp apologized for his controversial remarks about President Donald Trump. Speaking at the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom, Depp asked the audience “when was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” Depp was allegedly making a reference to the actor John Wilkes Booth who was responsible for assassinating […]

7y ago

Update On Donald Trump In Hall Of Presidents In Magic Kingdom At Walt Disney World – Will He Speak?

Update On Donald Trump In Hall Of Presidents In Magic Kingdom At Walt Disney World – Will He Speak?

When Donald Trump was elected the President of the United States, the Disney fans around the globe wondered how things would go in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Yes, that may seem like a strange thing to think about, but they all know that the new person in the Oval always goes into The […]

7y ago

Abraham Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories: Why Did John Wilkes Booth Kill The American President?

Abraham Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories: Why Did John Wilkes Booth Kill The American President?

Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories abounded in the days following the death of the 16th American president. How could John Wilkes Booth manage to pull off such a feat with only a small group of supporters? What was the role of the Confederate government in the whole ordeal? Even the Rothschild family and the Pope […]

7y ago

North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Larry Pitmann Under Fire For Calling Abraham Lincoln A ‘Tyrant’ Like Adolf Hitler

North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Larry Pitmann Under Fire For Calling Abraham Lincoln A ‘Tyrant’ Like Adolf Hitler

Was Abraham Lincoln a tyrant similar to that of Adolf Hitler? One North Carolina GOP lawmaker seems to think so. According to TIME, Larry Pitmann, a representative in the North Carolina General Assembly, is currently under fire after comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler in a comment on Facebook. Naturally, it didn’t take long for […]

7y ago

5 Presidents Who Make Donald Trump Look Good [Opinion]

5 Presidents Who Make Donald Trump Look Good [Opinion]

Donald Trump specializes in offending just about everyone in one way or another, yet despite his narcissistic, brash, and sexist actions, he is still not the worst POTUS ever. Sadly, there are a fair number of presidential candidates who rival our current president for unpopular or unethical actions. Some of these presidents, while popular or […]

7y ago

Mike Pence Honoring A White Man Is A Black History Month Party Foul [Opinion]

Mike Pence Honoring A White Man Is A Black History Month Party Foul [Opinion]

Wednesday marked February 1, and as such, also marked the beginning of the venerated Black History Month. A month dedicated to honoring and commemorating blackness and the strides in equality both the black population and America made over the decades, Black History Month is a time for paying respects to those who fought for equal […]

7y ago

Abraham Lincoln Signed The Emancipation Proclamation 154 Years Ago Today

Abraham Lincoln Signed The Emancipation Proclamation 154 Years Ago Today

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The details behind this decree are actually little more nuanced than one might think. Lincoln did not initially aim his fight towards southern slavery, but rather stated his intent for the preservation of the Union. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the […]

8y ago

The ‘Party Of Slavery’: Donald Trump Calls Out Democrats On Their Racist History

The ‘Party Of Slavery’: Donald Trump Calls Out Democrats On Their Racist History

The “party of slavery” is what Donald Trump has called the Democrats, and, as history can attest to, he’s not incorrect in his claim. As reported by the Daily Mail, during a rally in Everett, Washington, on Tuesday, Trump also paid homage to Abraham Lincoln, saying the Republican Party was the “home” of the sixteenth […]

8y ago

How Lies Became Acceptable Tools For Gain In Politics And Business

How Lies Became Acceptable Tools For Gain In Politics And Business

In the United States, we are taught, from a young age, that lies are not acceptable. We even have folklore, like the story of George Washington and the cherry tree, to illustrate the importance of the truth. Of course, that story is likely fabricated, but unlike the rumors about today’s politicians, it was not told […]

8y ago

Frederick Douglass: Google Honors Great Abolitionist For Black History Month

Frederick Douglass: Google Honors Great Abolitionist For Black History Month

Google kicked off its recognition of Black History Month this morning with a tribute to Frederick Douglass, arguably America’s most prominent anti-slavery activist of the 19th century. Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass rose from his beginnings to become an influential writer and speaker who championed not only the abolition movement but women’s rights as well. […]

8y ago

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