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Frederick Douglass’ Question to America, in 1852, Matters Today In this era of Black Lives Matter, it is instructive to look back at a time when Black lives were of no matter at all — except as tools for profit.Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass, born into enslavement in 1818 in Maryland, escaped and became a […]Read More
We once visited a stockyard in Sioux City Iowa and spoke to some of the cattlemen there. They said that when it came to making money from a cow, they use “Everything but the moo.” That this is pretty much the attitude of upstate politicians towards the prisoners held in their districts, becomes apparent in […]Read More
