There is a long history of political and religious leaders preaching one thing in public and practicing something else in private, usually something related to sex.
The list of political figures includes national founders Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Aaron Burr and more recently Strom Thurmond, Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Anthony Weiner, Mark Sanford, Bret Kavanaugh, and Donald Trump.
Contemporary religious leaders “caught with their pants down” include Tony Almo, Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard, and Jimmy Swaggart. In the mid-19th century Henry Ward Beecher bridged both categories as a political and religious figure. [Read more…] about When Victoria Woodhull Brought Down Henry Ward Beecher
As part of the New York Times’ 
Before and during the American Civil War, probably between 1851 and 1863, 
Twenty-five teenagers from United Community Centers youth groups in East New York, Brooklyn were amazed to learn that not only was there slavery in Brooklyn during the Revolutionary era, but that the New Lots African burial ground was now covered over by a park across the street from their community center, a park named after the Schenk slave holding family.
In May 1866, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a leading African American poet, lecturer and civil right activist, addressed the 
This year is the 185th anniversary of the founding of the Long Island Railroad. Despite service delays and fare increases it remains the spine of Long Island and the center of its transportation network. The LIRR serves over 300,000 passengers a week with about 90 million rides a year.
There is a 
Mass organization, non-violent civil disobedience, and a little unlawful protest have been effective ways to draw attention to issues and change public policy. Today’s anti-gun violence, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter activists can learn lessons from both the success and failure of the 1917 food riots led by immigrant women that swept through United States cities.
“Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave” a 68-page pamphlet self-published in the city of New York in 1825, begins with a note addressed “TO THE PUBLIC.” In the introductory note, Grimes explained:
In the 17th and 18th century, as New Amsterdam grew from a trading post into a village, a village into a town, and then a town into the port city of New York, its wealthiest residents were financially invested in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. And because they were among the most prominent of its early citizens, many of the city’s oldest streets are named after slaveholders and slave traders. An online database,