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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...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
TikTok files legal brief challenging ban
The Hill· 5 hours agoTikTok argued in a legal brief filed Thursday that the new law potentially banning the application from the United ...
The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment | Duncan Hosie
New York Review of Books· 3 days agoIn 1991 an inmate named Dee Farmer sued prison officials at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Eighth Amendment< ...
Recap: Donald Trump holds rally in Racine, his third Wisconsin rally of 2024
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA video of Trump played on large TVs for a second time around 1:00 p.m. In the video, Trump said he...
Delaware House rejects expanding absentee ballot, early voting in state constitution
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWhat does this mean for future voting reforms? Because one of the bill’s sponsors, Democratic Rep....
Louisiana orders every classroom to display Ten Commandments
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoEvery public school classroom in Louisiana has been ordered to display a poster of the Ten...
Letters to the Editor — The NRA, the Second Amendment and gun safety
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoIs the irony lost on me that the National Rifle Association has not stepped forward to defend Hunter...
Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court
The Hill· 1 day agoThe Supreme Court’s ruling in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP put to rest any lingering doubts...
NC Republicans propose constitutional amendments on voter ID, taxes and citizen voting
Durham Herald-Sun via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAll three of the proposed amendments make essentially no changes to existing state< ...