David Owen July 1, 2016 Frederick Douglass in 1867: “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” and how the National African American Gun Association eventually came about (see video below) Read More …
David Owen June 30, 2016 Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream Speech” was an impromptu speech showing his genius for oratory. On Wednesday, August 28, 1963, 250,000 Americans united at the Lincoln Memorial for the final speech of the Read More …
June 30, 2016 David Owen Ahead of Hillary’s gun laws: What 3 dollar item people are hoarding now Looking to the possibility of another Federal Assault Weapons Ban people are certainly buying more assault rifles and high-capacity magazines but a Read More …
June 29, 2016 David Owen The ruins of Gary, Indiana: On par with the more well known Detroit ruins Once the center of the country’s booming steel industry and known as the City of the Century, Gary, Indiana now lies Read More …
David Owen June 28, 2016 Michael Herr, one of the most famous documenters of the Vietnam War, dies at 76 No one could write like Michael Herr. We all tried: scribes and grunts, killers and chroniclers, fool novelists and crackpot Read More …
David Owen June 28, 2016 LGBT Community arming themselves after Orlando and taking a second look at Hillary’s gun control Video (LGBT Community arming themselves after Orlando): About Pink Pistols: http://www.pinkpistols.org/about-the-pink-pistols/ Pink Pistols article: http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/10/gays-for-guns-pink-pistols-group-says-self-defense-is-their-human-right/ Video (…and taking a second look at Hillary’s gun Read More …
PBS June 27, 2016 The earliest recorded protest against slavery was by the Quakers in 1688. Quakers, also known as “The Society of Friends,” have a long history of abolition. But it was four Pennsylvania Friends from Germantown who wrote Read More …
David Owen June 27, 2016 There are 3 times more enslaved people in the World today than there were black slaves kidnapped to the New World. This alleged statistic does not lessen the extreme criminality of the historic Transatlantic slave trade. It Read More …
David Owen June 26, 2016
PBS June 26, 2016 The first licensed African American Female pilot was named Bessie Coleman. Born in Atlanta, Texas in 1892, Bessie Coleman grew up in a world of harsh poverty, discrimination and segregation. She moved to Chicago at 23 Read More …