Back then, progress meant that the journey from slavery, through the wilderness, to the “Promised Land” was achievable. The journey ended at some point. Today, the journey is unachievable, ...
Just as the biblical Moses sought a way of liberation for the Hebrew people, historical figures in the United States sought a path of liberation for Black people during the antebellum and ...
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. — On June 19, Americans across the country will celebrate the Juneteenth holiday. The 1865 date commemorates the day the remaining enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, were ...
Musician Bruce Springsteen denounced the deployment of ICE officers nationwide and dedicated his song “The Promised Land” to Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis two weeks ago.
America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...
Mourning for Renee Nicole Good, the singer decried the Trump administration and the threat to freedom posed by “heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city.” Bruce Springsteen ...
Roland Merullo is the author of 21 novels and seven books of nonfiction. With his older daughter he writes a Substack newsletter called Hi Zan, Hi Pa. He can be reached at RolandMerullo.com. In his ...
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States has supported the modern establishment of Israel as a democratic alliance and, more recently, as an economic partner. National security, ...
Oprah Winfrey has officially parted with a small piece of her well-known Montecito property. Per Architectural Digest, the media icon has sold a four-acre portion of her Promised Land estate for $17.1 ...
First, some background information: Somali refugees have been settling in Minnesota since the 1990s, ultimately leading to the state having the largest population of Somalis in the U.S.—around 80,000.
To one man on Long Island, the hurricane which devastated Fire Island and the continuing strip of seabeach that runs as far east as Southampton (TIME, Oct. 3) spelled Opportunity as well as ...
CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Shortly after the end of the Civil War, freed African-Americans in Dickson County established the Promise Land community. Promise Land encompassed 1,000 acres of Charlotte, ...