by Chris Moore | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
Tulsa, Oklahoma, played host last weekend to the confluence of the first mass gathering during a still quite active pandemic, and the latest example of a much bigger pandemic – the virus called racism, which has infected this nation since its inception. Lots of us saw...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jun 19, 2020 | Faith Freedom 2020, Opinion
The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed more than two-and-a-half years earlier. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant more than two months before, ending the treasonous Confederate States of America – an imagined white...
by Mitch Randall | Jun 18, 2020 | Faith Freedom 2020, Opinion
Slavery didn’t officially end in Texas until June 19, 1865, when approximately 250,000 ex-slaves heard the news from Major Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army. The general cited General Orders, Number 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance...
by Tony C. Cartledge | Jun 20, 2015 | Opinion
I suspect many people had not heard of “Juneteenth” before this week, when the 150th anniversary of the celebration followed by just two days the heartless murder of nine black worshipers in Charleston’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...