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US House Passed Bill Automatically Registering Men 18-26 Years Old for Draft. Here's What That Means
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFox News, 14 June 2024, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-defense-bill...
House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe other, unspoken effect would be removing young men's choice to engage in civil disobedience. The...
Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for?
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoJuneteenth is an official holiday first held to mark the close of slavery after the Civil War in Texas, but the George Floyd protests made it mainstream.
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News via Yahoo News· 54 minutes agoThe proclamation took effect as the country neared its second year of the Civil War and technically...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoA military decree, the proclamation declared enslaved people in Confederate territory as free but...
50 years ago: When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Notre Dame
Gannett via AOL· 14 hours agoField, one of the first full-time African-American reporters on The Tribune news staff. King told...
Surgeon General Pushes for Warning Labels on Social Media
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 52 minutes agoArrivals (DACA) recipients, to get job visas more quickly. This amnesty follows an immigration...
National historian, Maine leaders discuss need to better understand our ‘hard histories’
Maine Morning Star via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoCivil rights historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries said Americans love nostalgia, not history. Nostalgia is...
Oral arguments to be heard Tuesday in case against anti-transgender bill in Missoula
KULR-8 Billings· 1 day agoThe bill was signed into law in March of 2023 by Governor Greg Gianforte that legalized the...
The Juneteenth National Holiday is a Time to Remember
Native News Online via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoPresident Joe Biden signed the legislation into law three years that makes Juneteenth a national...