I find it funny when people attack me as MAGA. Someone yesterday said I would do whatever "Dear Leader" demanded. They ...

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery document had been lost forever. Church officials consider the scroll one of ...

Slave hunts brought the ideology of the slave owner into the streets of Paris, raising the question of what neighbors thought. At least for bystanders, the arrest of slaves looked just like regular ...

The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico adopted a new rule that allows non-lawyers to own an interest in a law firm, according to a trial lawyers group in the US territory. Columnist Andrew Leahey says a ...

Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.

Rhode Island’s 2026 budget bill contains a "Non-Owner-Occupied Property Tax Act," which is popularly referred to as the “Taylor Swift Tax.” This law imposes a new statewide tax on non-owner ...

Slavery defined people — slaves, slave-owners, non-slave holding whites, free blacks and native Americans.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook.

But after some slave revolts, slaver owners grew suspicious and the Southern Black churches became less prevalent – and independent.