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+ June 09, 2021 IN THESE times of hardship, a good soul discovers the innate ability to become a philanthropist. It does not matter if a person helps feed a small family or a whole community, what matters is that he gives sincerely, feeling the pain of others, and actually cares enough about their needs.
No, this is not about traditional politicians who pose for the cameras for a photo opportunity with the hope of seeing their faces on papers the next day. A tradpol gives because he wants to be recognized. And more often, it’s not actually giving because some items were already given by private donations and a meaty chunk of what these gators in position should actually serve to their constituents has already been diverted to where the public could not notice. These political crocs are not worthy to be compared to people who really express philanthropy. An American journalist Gamaliel Bailey once wrote that “never respect men merely for their riches, but
On April 8, 1873, black residents in Baltimore gathered to pay homage to Johns Hopkins, a man with just months of life remaining who planned to create an orphanage for black children and a hospital open to whites and blacks alike.
One speaker at the rally praised the businessman for distributing his fortune “for the relief of the colored man.” Another said Hopkins was guided by “the highest expression of the spirit of the age.” A third added, “Wherever the colored man may be, there will his name be known.”
A Johns Hopkins University investigation that labeled its own founder a slave owner has come under criticism.
Over 41 issues, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel
Uncle Tom s Cabin was published as a serial in the abolitionist newspaper
The National Era, beginning on June 5, 1851. At first, few readers followed the story, but its audience steadily grew as the drama unfolded.
“Wherever I went among the friends of the
Era, I found
Uncle Tom’s Cabin a theme for admiring remark,” journalist and social critic Grace Greenwood wrote in a travelogue published in the
Era. “[E]verywhere I went, I saw it read with pleasant smiles and irrepressible tears.’” The story was discussed in other abolitionist publications, such as Frederick Douglass’s newspaper
The summer of 2020 was not the first time America saw protests and violence over the treatment of African Americans. An account on April 19, 1848, of the Pearl’s capture appearing in The Daily Union newspaper of Washington, D.C. Library of Congress
Long before the demonstrations over Black Lives Matter, long before the marches of the civil rights era, strife over racism convulsed the nation’s capital. But those riots in Washington, D.C., were led by proslavery mobs.
In the spring of 1848, conspirators orchestrated one of the largest escapes from slavery in U.S. history. In doing so, they sparked a crisis that entangled advocates for slavery’s abolition, white supremacists, the press and even the president.