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Metro-east civil rights leaders discuss the importance of the Juneteenth holiday
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“It’s a holiday for every person who believes the peculiar institution of slavery was wrong and that...
Our View: A celebration of freedom -- for all
The Sun Chronicle· 7 days agoOn the night of Jan. 1, 1863, enslaved and free Blacks gathered in churches and private homes across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect. At the stroke ...
Was Bloomington's first gay bar in the Irish Lion building? What we found about its history
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe illicit activities on the levee continued. A later article reflected on the “Morton Street...
DeSantis selfishly guts Florida's arts and culture funding for a budget gimmick | Commentary
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWe can only guess at DeSantis' strange hostility toward arts and culture funding, but it's difficult...
With Juneteenth upon us, it’s time for us to rethink the backwards way we view reparations | Opinion
Philly.com· 6 days agoAs the nation approaches what’s arguably its second Independence Day, Juneteenth, I can’t help but...
This 1920s Debate Explains Why So Many Americans Hate the News Media
Scientific American· 5 hours agoIn 1917, President Woodrow Wilson was having trouble ginning up support for the U.S. entry into the...
Patrick Hornbeck, ReligionDispatches
The Raw Story· 1 day agoIf this happened today, university authorities would undoubtedly respond by citing Virginia’s “Contracted Independent Organizations” policy, which makes ineligible for official recognition any ...
EDITORIAL: Juneteenth 2024 | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 5 days agoWho put Juneteenth so close to Flag Day? It's almost as if the flag of the United States was meant...
Liberalism Under Siege
New Republic· 3 days agoAmerican Colonial leaders did not originally set out to discover a radically new philosophy of political freedom or establish a virtually unprecedented...
Opinion | Three potential wild cards for a razor-close Biden-Trump election
Washington Post· 4 days agoThe Trump-Biden rematch is too close (40.8 percent to 40.3 percent in the FiveThirtyEight polling...
