Robert Calvin Rivers

02/16/2026

What leg of the journey are you on?

Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America. This powerful testimony reveals the brutal reality of the transatlantic slave trade that fueled the col...

02/13/2026

Every writer of history wants to craft a work that sticks to the ribs of the reader, and no meal does that better than one made from sacred cows. That’s what John Samuel Harpham aims to do in The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery. Using an array of texts, ranging from traveler accounts and ...

02/05/2026

Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is most remembered for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience to advance civil rights and pursue equal opportunities for African Americans. He opposed segregation and marched on Washington, DC, to deliver his famous "I Have A...

02/05/2026

They were "colored"

The Black Seminoles were a group of people that history, for the most part, forgot about. Their alliance with the native Seminole tribes resulted in a unique relationship that had never been seen before, and that changed the course of history for both the Seminoles and the State of Florida as a whol...

12/24/2025

Sois Audacieux.............................................................Jasiri

"My brain sized him up before he even reached my table. Police officer. White. Middle-aged. Beard. Military tattoos." View Entire Post ›

11/22/2025

11/22/2025

Woke= Telling the truth otherwise They teach that which will get you/them job, hold a position, Christopher Columbus discovered America, and "Slaves Were hired Workers"

Wokeness, paired with unhinged hatred of President Donald Trump, can infect even a respected filmmaker's work. According to Jonathan Barth, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, filmmaker Ken Burns might have suffered that fate. Barth on Thursday posted a lengthy thread on X th...

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