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Fact-checking Byron Donalds’ ‘Jim Crow’ comments on Black families, conservatism
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 day ago, July 14, 2014 Kelly Raley, Megan Sweeney, and Danielle Wondra, "The Growing Racial and Ethnic ...
DAVID SHRIBMAN: Two presidential candidates, mired in the past
Goshen News· 19 hours agoOne candidate worried about the country being a “house divided” by slavery but saw a future where...
The week's bestselling books, June 16
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl (Random House: $29) An adventure through the food, art and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris. 9. Camino Ghosts by John Grisham...
Ford's Theatre Annual Gala Celebrates President Lincoln's Legacy With Performances & More
Broadway World· 4 days agoFord's Theatre Society celebrated the legacy of President Abraham Lincoln at its Annual Gala on Sunday evening, June 9, 2024, at Ford's Theatre. Learn more about the event.
Today in History: June 16, Donald Trump launches presidential campaign
Houston Chronicle· 4 days agoJune 16, 2015, real estate mogul Donald Trump launched his successful campaign to become president of the United States with a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan. In 1858, ...
Book Reviews: The Demon of Unrest: Erik Larson
The Valdosta Daily Times· 7 days agoErik Larson writes narrative history. The book chronicles the developments and the people involved leading to the early 1861 siege of Fort Sumter in...
Ways to come together; preserving democracy, decency; bad choices
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette· 6 days ago“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,...
Splaine: Juneteenth is about our future
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHampshire: Juneteenth has been an official federal holiday, signed by President Joe Biden in 2021. In 2019, Gov. Chris Sununu signed legislation that...
As Congress scrutinizes the Osprey, families balance grief with pilots' love for it
WUNC Chapel Hill· 3 days agoThe V-22 Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan last November has brought the aircraft's safety...
Their View: Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
Times Leader· 1 day agoIn Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District of Texas, as was already the case elsewhere in ...
