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While Florida was part of the Confederacy, Key West was not and freed its slaves early
CBS News· 1 day agoDuring the Civil War, Florida was part of the Confederate States of America.
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 2 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"What, to the American slave, is your fourth of July," Douglass said. "I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days ...
The history of actual American class war: When workers shot back
The Hill· 1 day agoWhen progressives point to the structural inequality of the American economy — between the...
Opinion | Jan. 6, America’s Rupture and the Strange, Forgotten Power of Oblivion
New York Times· 6 days agoOn March 4, Judge Tanya Chutkan presided over jury selection for a criminal trial in a Jan. 6, 2021,...
How to battle the 2nd great insurrection
The Raw Story· 13 hours ago— They rant about brown people pouring over the southern border but refuse to even discuss what could be done about it. In fact, when the Senate came up...
Key Mississippi leader is open to replacing state’s white supremacist statues in Washington
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoCapitol in Washington, a move that would follow the lead of several other Southern states. Shanks, a Republican from Brandon, told Mississippi... Speaker ...
For True Freedom, We Need Power-Sharing Liberalism
New Republic· 14 hours agoInterestingly, if you attend not to national but to state politics, you find a picture of an American people who can come to supermajority ...
There may not be many of them. But these Southern lesbian bars are still finding ways to thrive –...
KION 46 Salinas· 5 days agoSade and Tracy Chapman croon from the speakers overhead, and owner Erin Karcher is behind the bar,...
These Three Politicians Once Looked Like the Future of the GOP. 72 Hours Later the Dream Was Dead.
Politico via Yahoo News· 7 days agoShe had held among her constituents an 81 percent approval rating heading into 2016. ...voices” — she considered all the alternatives. She met with Bush, Cruz and Rubio and ...
