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On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
On March 20, 1852, a small Boston publishing house, John P. Jewett and Company, released a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet...
On March 20, 1852, the Boston firm of John P. Jewett published a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle...
For eighteen years, Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city perched on the northern bank of the Ohio River with slaveholding Kentucky just...
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stood before the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Months earlier, the Daughters of the...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before nearly six hundred people in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society had...
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stepped to a microphone on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Weeks earlier, the Daughters of the...
In March 1841, Dorothea Dix walked into the East Cambridge Jail to teach a Sunday school class and encountered something that changed her life. Mentally...
On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment for the second time. The measure had failed the previous...
On the evening of December 31, 1862, thousands of Black Americans gathered in churches, contraband camps, and meeting halls across the nation, waiting for midnight....
On the evening of July 31, 1834, thousands of enslaved men, women, and children gathered in churches and chapels across the British Caribbean. In Jamaica,...
In the prophet's day, the Jewish leaders had cast off their wives for heathen women, then taught their followers this transgression was no sin.
Two forms exist: assertory oaths affirm or deny past and present facts; promissory oaths pledge future action, becoming vows when made directly to Elohim, or covenants when between persons.
In December 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor. Wilberforce — a wealthy young Member of Parliament — had recently...
A Christian's duty, while dwelling as a citizen of this world, is to engage its concerns actively.
On March 9, 1841, seventy-three-year-old John Quincy Adams rose before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The former president, long retired from the...
The "wheel" is not primarily an instrument of torture, but a threshing tool.
On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi stepped out of Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, and began walking. His destination was the coastal village of Dandi,...
Israel shall be borne away from her land suddenly and violently, as by the winds of heaven.
Psalm 5:6 pronounces the Divine judgment: "Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing"—those who traffic in falsehoods, whether spoken carelessly or with malicious intent. The distinction matters little to Yahweh's justice. A lie uttered in jest remains a lie; the...
When Elohim's scythe swung through the harvests of that empire, desolation followed.