by Marvin Blake | Feb 12, 2024 | Politics
To paraphrase the words of Benjamin Franklin: “We have a Democracy… if we can keep it!” In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States of America. Subsequently, a large segment of the population—mostly concentrated in the thirteen...
by Marvin Blake | Feb 12, 2024 | Justice
The year, 1955. Rosa Louise Parks, a black woman…, an African-American woman of color, boarded one of the Montgomery City Bus Lines’ buses. After paying her fare, Rosa Parks took a seat in the rear of the bus… in the designated “colored” section of the bus. When all...
by Marvin Blake | Feb 12, 2024 | Politics
A secretly recorded conversation on June 23, 1972 between President Richard Nixon and his aide H.R. Haldeman revealed the president’s involvement in the Watergate break-ins and the cover-up. In 1974, a secret 1972 tape recording of White House conversations...