13th Amendment - Abolished Slavery This amendment formally abolished ... 24th Amendment - Bye bye poll tax We needed an entire amendment because racists were changing Black people a fee to vote.

Schools, theaters, restaurants, and transportation cars were segregated. Poll taxes, literacy requirements, and grandfather clauses not only prevented blacks from voting, but also made them ...

Slaves command a higher price in Kentucky, taking gold as the standard of value, than in any other of the Southern States. In Missouri they are sold at from forty dollars to four hundred ...

How Vice President Kamala Harris answered questions this week about her stance on slavery reparations for African-Americans ...

Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) defended Democrats’ opposition to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, calling it a “modern poll tax” in an interview on NewsNation’s “The ...

A new poll finds neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has a decisive edge with the public on the economy, turning an issue ...

Slavery by Another Name “resets” our national clock with a singular astonishing fact: Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

Should black Americans get slavery ... use tax revenue on the cannabis industry - which became legal in Illinois in January 2020 - to contribute $10m to the programme. A 2019 Gallup poll found ...

Donald Trump's campaign vow to increase tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China, has the support of a narrow ...

Former President Donald Trump pledged this week to eliminate income taxes on overtime pay, which would require congressional ...

Donald Trump talks a lot about inflation, but would his agenda reduce inflation? Not according to 16 Nobel Prize-winning ...