It is often said we should learn from history. We sometimes do learn from history. Sometimes we don鈥檛.Another oft repeated phrase is that the past is never really in the past. (Thank you, William Faulkner.)References to these axioms 鈥 that we should learn from history and that the past ...
When the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. spoke at Mt. Rose Baptist Church in Uniontown in July of 1963, he brought a powerful message with him.鈥淲e have come a long, long way, but we have got a long, long way to go,鈥 he told the packed congregation on Grant Street.A month later (on Aug. 28), his ...
Most men Joe Biden鈥檚 age are retired gents putting on the green or puttering in the garden, or trudging off to Walmart or Walgreens to get their meds. But Joe Biden is not like the rest of us.Elected to the Senate at the age of 30 in 1972, two years later he was telling a group of Washington ...