In the famous turning-point presidential election of 1896, urban working-class immigrants tended to vote Republican, organized by the active and powerful political machines in big cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Very few in the mass migration of that day moved to the..…

John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops Saratoga, New York, of Revolutionary War. 1807. Britain declared it would continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held U.S citizenship. 1931. ..…

When David Patterson succeeded Eliot Spitzer as Governor of the State of New York in March of 2007, for the first time in American history, two blacks were serving as the chief executive officers of their respective states.Patterson joined Duval Patrick, whom the voters of..…

In the predominantly white crowd, African American John Trent, 69, and Jacquelynn Trent, 66, of Charlotte, handed out prayer journals. Curtis has worked at The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, Charlotte Observer, and is facilitator with The OpEd Project. ..…

Brunel, founder of Karin Models and MC2 Model Management, is accused in American court documents of rape and of obtaining young women for Epstein, who was found hanged in his New York jail cell on August 10 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. . ..…