Four LAPD Officers Who Beat Rodney King are Acquitted, Prompting LA Riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County from April 29 – May 4, 1992. Unrest …
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Police Fire Bombed a Philly Neighborhood Killing Women and Children
Since the beginning of time, there has been a constant struggle between people who want to be free and those who seek to control them. …
The Washington Star Breaks the Story on the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Controversial research programs, unethical experimentation, and human trials have been part of the medical field for centuries. It doesn’t make it any less wrong, but …
President Richard Nixon: Homosexuality Destroyed the Greeks, Will Lead To The Destruction of US
Below is a transcript from a May 13, 1971, conversation among President Richard Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and H. R. Haldeman. The dialogue was transcribed …
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
On December 4, 1969, 47 years ago today, a select unit of Chicago police officers executed a predawn raid that left Illinois Black Panther Party …
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio] Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and …
CBS REPORTS Airs an Episode Titled ‘The New Left’
The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a …
Malcolm X is Assassinated, Orchestrated by US Intelligence
Malcolm X died from assassins’ bullets on February 21, 1965, at the age of 39. By that time, Malcolm X had started a non-religious activist …
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Becomes Law
From the May 28, 2012, issue of NR. This magazine has long specialized in debunking pernicious political myths, and Jonah Goldberg has now provided an illuminating …
Civil Rights and NAACP leader Medgar Evers is Shot to Death in the Driveway of his Home in Jackson, Mississippi
In the ensuing daylight hours, a high-powered rifle is discovered stashed in the brush near where the killer had lain in wait for the ambush. …