Micah Beckwith, now Indiana's lieutenant governor, speaks to a crowd on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Greenwood. (Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the ...

Colorado Democrats are calling out a tone-deaf Republican who joked about lynching and justified thinking of Black people as three-fifths of a person. On Thursday, State Rep. Ron Hank took to the ...

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty (R), is facing criticism for defending the Three-Fifths Compromise. The agreement was drafted during the nation’s Constitutional Convention in 1787 and classified ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican falsely declared Tuesday that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for “the purpose of ending slavery," ...

DENVER — Colorado State Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Penrose) falsely alleged that the three-fifths compromise was not “impugning anybody’s humanity” while debating a civics education bill on the House floor ...

Local religious groups are denouncing recent comments by Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith surrounding his belief ...

We must speak up when people speak confidently from positions of power, especially when they twist history to fit a political agenda. That’s what Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith has done with his ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a claim that has surfaced and been debunked before, but Republican lawmakers in recent days have given it new voice: the notion that the clause in the Constitution counting slaves as ...