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Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court
The Hill· 12 hours agoThe Supreme Court’s ruling in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP put to rest any lingering doubts...
Louisiana becomes first state to require that Ten Commandments be displayed in public classrooms
CBS News· 7 hours agoLouisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every...
Amy Coney Barrett Breaks With Supreme Court Originalists
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoJustice Amy Coney Barrett did something interesting last week in an otherwise uninteresting case. ...
Louisiana Obliterates Separation of Church and State With Wild New Law
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 hours agostate and national government.” If that’s truly the case, then where is Louisiana’s law requiring ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 14 hours agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
The history and significance of Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoJuneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country's second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom.
This Juneteenth, it’s time for Biden to honor the federal holiday he created by ending forced labor
Salon via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoThe best way to finally end slavery in America is to remove the slavery exception from the...
The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment | Duncan Hosie
New York Review of Books· 2 days agoIn 1991 an inmate named Dee Farmer sued prison officials at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Eighth Amendment< ...
Opinion | Justice Alito, please don’t forget the First Amendment
Washington Post· 1 day agoConsider it a fellowship of church and state, where providence smiles on judges and constituents in...