Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged into an ...

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] - The Africa Center

16 April 1963. My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities ...

We Don't Have Time to Waste in Despair - The New York Times

Millions of Americans are engaging in politics awash in conspiracy. A key reason Trump retained his hold on the Republican Party, for example, ...

Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged ... - Threads

Bruce Gluckman (@brucegluckman). 2 Likes. Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged into an anticipatory grief | Moira Donegan ...

"Some Elements of the American Character" Independence Day ...

"Some Elements of the American Character" Independence Day Oration by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Candidate for Congress from the 11th Congressional District, July ...

Great Depression Facts - FDR Presidential Library & Museum

The Great Depression was a severe, world-wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on Black Thursday, October 24, ...

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class.

Despair is not an option. If you want to live in a sane and decent ...

If you want to live in a sane and decent society, if you want a better world for your kids, you must stand up and fight for a better America.

Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged into an ...

Donald Trump appears to have decisively won the American election. He and his Republican allies have promised mass deportations that will ruin lives and sunder ...

Don't Turn Inward - The Atlantic

After a bruising election, many Americans may feel an impulse toward solitude. That's the wrong instinct.

Why Americans Are Dying from Despair | The New Yorker

Atul Gawande on the unfairness of our economy, which, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.

What's next? Boston thought leaders debrief on the presidential ...

Two women hug in tears, consoling one another following the Vice President Kamala Harris' concession speech on Wednesday.

Remarks by Vice President Harris and Liz Cheney at a Campaign ...

Royal Oak Music TheatreRoyal Oak, Michigan 4:31 P.M. EDT MS. SHRIVER: Okay. Here we go. Sit back. We've got 40 -- 40 minutes, and we're ...

The Great Depression Hits Farms and Cities in the 1930s | Iowa PBS

Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well. After the stock market crash, ...

Letter from Birmingham Jail - Chico State

by Martin Luther King, Jr. From the Birmingham jail, where he was imprisoned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation, Dr. Martin ...

Frederick Douglass's, “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a former slave who became the greatest abolitionist orator of the antebellum period. During the Civil War he worked ...

“A Creative Protest [“Fill Up the Jails”]”

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what would become a widely influential speech titled, “A Creative Protest” on February 16, 1960 at White Rock Baptist Church ...

How Do We Go On? - Civic Media

In these dark first days after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, I want to acknowledge your pain, your fears, your despair.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852)

This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National. Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, ...

The Great Depression - Federal Reserve History

The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy lasted more than a decade, beginning in 1929 and ending ...

Africans in America/Part 4/Frederick Douglass speech - PBS

Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men.