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'Faces of the Conquerors': Trump Trip to Rushmore Draws Fire

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — President Donald Trump’s plans to kick off Independence Day with a showy display at Mount Rushmore are drawing sharp criticism from Native Americans who view the monument as a desecration of land violently stolen from them and used to pay homage to leaders hostile to native...

What Do Videos of Ugly DC Encounter Really Show?

A group of five black men shouting vulgar insults while protesting centuries of oppression. Dozens of white Catholic high school students visiting Washington for a rally to end abortion. And Native Americans marching to end injustice for indigenous peoples across the globe who have seen their lands overrun by outside...

Opinion: Why I Don't Celebrate the Columbus Day Lie

“In fourteen hundred ninety two, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue …” I learned that little ditty when I was 4 years old, and for many more years, I believed it. I believed that Columbus “discovered” America. It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I learned that story...

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