Pauline Hopkins Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins was a prominent novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes. Her work reflects the influence of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her first known ... Read more...
Piracy finds its way into just about every legitimate avenue on the Internet. As such, the death of online piracy via shutting down otherwise legitimate sites and services could mean the end of the Internet as we know it. The death of online piracy: the U.S. government wants it and copyright hold... Read more...
Google VP and Internet evangelist Dr. Vinton Cerf writes in the New York Times that Internet access isn’t a right - it’s just a tool towards enabling free speech. Dr. Vinton Cerf, a Google VP and its chief Internet evangelist, took to the pages of the New York Times late last week with a opinion... Read more...
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these *ss-f*cks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social ... Read more...
Whether It Is New Year's Eve or "Watch Night" or "Freedom's Eve", the Black Community in America Celebrates Freedom from Slavery as of 11:59 pm, December 31, 1862. "On that night, Blacks came together in churches and private homes all across the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipati... Read more...
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states,... Read more...
The web may not be perfect, but SOPA is a reactionary bill to a broken copyright system. One thought alone: The ‘broken web’ is ironically what makes it work. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) will starve the web of the oxygen that it needs, issue its marching orders and censor the U.S... Read more...
delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good ... Read more...
From gagging orders to inciting rioting, and libel suits and defamation, Twitter can be a minefield for legal implications, according to new research. Amid the super-injunction controversy earlier this year, 68 percent Twitter users in the UK have “little or no awareness of their legal responsi... Read more...