Most people are aware of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was an expedition to cross the newly gained western portion of the United States, also known as the Louisiana Purchase made in 1803. The land expanded from modern day St. Louis to Montana; the trek went further though to modern day Washington. Key members of the expedition were William Clark, Meriwether Lewis and Sacagawea. There was also an African American male who played a part in the expedition, who was less known his name is York.

York was born into slavery, the son of “Old York” and Rose, two…

In 2016, AT&T bought Time Warner for $85.4 billion. The merger brought Time Warner and all its holdings (CNN, Warner Brothers, DC Comics and HBO) under the same umbrella as AT&T telecommunications holdings including DirecTV. The pairing seemed odd when it was announced. A telecommunications company and content company? Most of us assumed there were smart people running the companies, and they knew what they were doing.

In May 2021, AT&T announced its selling all of its Warner Media assets to Discovery for $43 Billion. A little less than 5 years later, and 18 Billion less than they paid for…

With the end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13th Amendment by Congress, the question became how to fairly compensate former African American slaves for all of their years of hard labor and servitude. Most people are familiar with the 40 Acres and a mule plan that crashed and burned before ever really taking off. Subsequently, there was another much lesser known plan, a pension plan for former slaves.

William R. Vaughan, a white democrat concocted the idea that the U.S. Government should compensate ex-slaves by granting them a pension. Vaughan believed that pension would provide some…

This car was supposed to change the automobile industry, instead it went down as one of the biggest flops in automotive history. The Ford Edsel lasted only 3 years on the market but left a lifetime of lessons.

Ford saw an opportunity in the middle car market, equivalent to the Accord, Camry or Altima market of today. A fun bit of reference is the middle car market was the $ 2,500 — $ 3,800 dollar range then for a brand new car. (inflation.. sigh) Ford moved Lincoln to the upscale market and began designing a car only known as the…

The McDonalds coffee lawsuit, most people use it as a sign of what’s wrong with America and what’s wrong with the current judicial system. A concern is that most people don’t know the facts of the case, or what happened during the trial. The case was a meme before memes existed. Today we will dispel the myths and rumors about the silly lady who thought it was a good idea to drive holding hot coffee between her legs.

On February 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, ordered a 49 cent cup of coffee from the…

Coca-Cola (Coke) vs. Pepsi, the old vanguard of tradition vs. the new upstart vying for the soft drink crown. This story has been told many times throughout literature, history and pop culture, it’s essentially a battle of old vs. new, or innovation vs. tradition.

Pepsi introduced Diet Pepsi in 1964, it took Coke until 1982 for it to come out with Diet Coke. Coke wasn’t a company that was comfortable with change.

After World War II, Coke had 60% of the soft drink market share. In 1983, that market share percentage had declined to under 24%. The decline in sales…

When most people think of The War on Drugs, they think of the 1980s, D.A.R.E., Nancy Reagan and the Just Say No TV ads. The term was first introduced into our Lexicon in the 1970s by Richard Nixon. He used the term in a speech, where he declared drug abuse “public enemy number one.”

In the 1968 Presidential election, Nixon essentially ran the original MAGA campaign. The 1960s was a time of upheaval and change from the way America was, and Nixon campaigned on making America normal again for good, upstanding citizens (aka Caucasians). The principal opponents who opposed Nixon…

In 1902, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt went on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi with Governor Andrew H. Longino. During the trip, everybody but Roosevelt had killed an animal. A group of men on the tour, cornered, clubbed and tied an American black bear to a willow tree. The man called for Roosevelt to shoot and kill the bear, Roosevelt refused, saying it would be unsportsmanlike, but that they should kill the bear to put it out of its misery. The incident turned into a political cartoon. …