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A statue of federal judge and civil rights activist Nathaniel Jones, a Youngstown native, will be unveiled at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati on Friday.
The human right to individual liberty rests on a moral and rational foundation that was understood in ancient times, with the realization that the laws of rulers and legislatures must conform to the laws of nature so as not to infringe on the freedoms that are essential to human nature. Human beings possess reason and moral agency the capacity to make moral choices; this is what forms the core of humanity.
President Joe Biden is the first president in US history to visit the town in Tulsa, Okla. where a racist mob murdered black people and ravaged the prosperous town by fire.
The Tulsa Massacre was …
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One hundred years ago, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street,” was ruthlessly attacked by a violent white supremacist mob. An estimated 300 Black Americans were killed and another 10,000 were left destitute and homeless.
The destruction wrought on the Greenwood neighborhood and its families was followed by laws and policies that made recovery nearly impossible. The streets were redlined, locking Black Tulsans out of homeownership and access to credit. Federal highways built through the heart of Greenwood cut off families and businesses from economic opportunity. And chronic disinvestment by the federal government in Black entrepreneurs and small businesses denied Black Wall Street a fair shot at rebuilding. These are the stories of Greenwood, but they have echoes in countless Black communities across the country.