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The Massachusetts Bay Colony is the second lesson in the Colonial Period unit with Marquette and Joliet, Bacon’s Rebellion, The Great Awakening, and The French and Indian War to follow. It was preceded by the Plymouth colony. The pre-Colonial Period saw European explorers, through the use of triangular trade and...
The Plymouth Colony is the first lesson in the Colonial Period unit with Massachusetts Bay Colony, Marquette and Joliet, Bacon’s Rebellion, and the French and Indian War to follow. The pre-Colonial Period saw European explorers, through the use of triangular trade and particularly the Atlantic Slave trade, colonize indigenous people...
Welcome to the first episode of the Blackitics podcast. Weekly, co-hosts Kwaisi France, Richard Hazel, Dr. Bamidele Olatobosun, and Walter Shelton promote their own unique political views by suggesting worthwhile negotiations the black community should engage in, laws and policy of interest to black people, and what effective resistance to...
On October 30th, CNN detailed four key states — Florida, North Carolina, Nevada and Iowa — Republicans are beginning to narrow the early voter gap. More than 12 million ballots have been cast in these four states, which could be crucial in determining the next president. Early Voter Gap: Florida...
Allan Smith of NBC News reports So far, more than 20 percent of the early vote nationwide has come from 2016 nonvoters, according to data from the NBC News Decision Desk/TargetSmart, a Democratic political data firm. With 77 million having already cast early votes — a number that the Decision Desk...
Ben Leonard of the Baltimore Sun reports how Maryland reported 962 new coronavirus cases Thursday — the most new daily cases since Aug. 1 — and 11 deaths tied to COVID-19, the disease the virus causes. Maryland Covid-19 Cases are indeed spiking. Hospitalizations Thursday’s reported 502 current hospitalizations set a...
The Commerce Department reported that the pandemic economy grew at an annualized pace of 33.1% in the third quarter. That headline figure overstates the actual growth rate, however, just as the official number for the April to June quarter showing an annualized contraction of 31.4% exaggerated the economy’s decline (Both figures describe...
Fewer governors are up for reelection in presidential years than in midterms, but Jim Geraghty of National Review reviews some of the more interesting ones. Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Forest just isn’t making incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper sweat at all though both the Presidential and Senate races are close. Washington...
Jim Geraghty at National Review outlines how Trump won with 306 electoral votes four years ago and thus he can give away 36 electoral votes and hit the critical threshold of 270. He doesn’t need to win Wisconsin. He doesn’t need to win Michigan. He could lose both of those...
Donald Trump boasts he’s the best president for Blacks since Abe Lincoln. But are Black lives really better under his administration? Charisse Jones at USA Today answer the question. Unemployment Three years into the Trump administration, African Americans experienced a record low unemployment rate of 5.4% in August 2019. But the...