by Sutton Roach | Jun 7, 2017 | #InContext
Charles Darwin invented the theory of evolution by natural selection. How was it that a man born into a Christian family and trained as a clergyman at a conservative university came to develop a theory that not only challenged the religious view of creation but...
by Takim Williams | May 31, 2017 | #InContext
In ancient Rome, slavery was common, and running away from your owner was punishable by death. A man named Onesimus did just that in the first century AD when he escaped from his master, Philemon. He managed to travel hundreds of miles from the city of Colossae...
by Takim Williams | May 17, 2017 | #InContext
Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. Born into a family of Romanian Jews in 1928, he found himself trapped in the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald during World War II. His parents and younger sister were killed before the Allies liberated the camp in 1945. Wiesel...
by Takim Williams | May 10, 2017 | #InContext
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. is an experience as much as it is a structure. Granite walls form four open-air rooms – one for each of the president’s four terms. Carved into the granite of the memorial are Roosevelt’s own words...
by Kelli Ross | May 7, 2017 | Douglass Fellows, Our Stories, U.S. Updates
McLean, Virginia – The Human Trafficking Institute is launching its Douglass Fellows program, inspired by Frederick Douglass’s commitment to freedom, education, law enforcement, and advocacy. This program will provide an opportunity for law students and exceptional...