As part of the Republican Party’s new effort to woo black voters, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul went to Howard University yesterday and presented a questionable version of history to explain why black people should be flocking to the Republican Party. Paul seemed to expect that the crowd at the historically black university wouldn’t be aware [...]
Mauch Becomes Latest Arkansas State Official To Defend Slavery
October 9, 2012 | Posted by
Loy Mauch is the latest Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives found to have written letters in support of slavery. According to reports from the Arkansas Times, Mauch defended slavery in one of his letters to the editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in 2009, saying: “If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t [...]
New York’s Schomburg Center to Display Only Surviving Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
September 5, 2012 | Posted by
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem will be the first stop for the New York State Museum’s traveling exhibition of the only surviving draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in Abraham Lincoln’s handwriting. On display Sept. 21 through Sept. 24, “The First Step to Freedom: Abraham Lincoln’s Preliminary Proclamation,” will include [...]
New Book ‘The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln’ Asks: ‘What If Lincoln Lived?’
July 13, 2012 | Posted by
What if Abraham Lincoln had lived? What would have happened? Stephen L. Carter’s new novel suggests one answer. “The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln” recasts tragedy as thriller with the living Lincoln on trial for his political life. A bestselling author (“The Emperor of Ocean Park,” “Jericho’s Fall”), Carter hews to the historical record more than [...]
Brave Dominates U.S. Box Office
June 24, 2012 | Posted by
UPDATE: Pixar continues their dominance at the box office with their latest animation, Brave. The animated fantasy drama raked in a wopping $24.5 million Friday night. With numbers like that, the film is easily on track to finishing the weekend in the $65-70 million dollar range. Brave opened in a record braking 4,164 theaters, 2,790 [...]
Benjamin Walker & Anthony Mackie Interview – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
June 21, 2012 | Posted by
Anthony Mackie seriously seems to be everywhere these days. Every time you turn around he’s turning in another appealing supporting performance, whether as the mysterious hat-wearing force of fate in The Adjustment Bureau, the robot boxing promoter in Real Steel, or maybe most famously, a charismatic soldier in The Hurt Locker. This weekend he’s back [...]
