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Editorial: Juneteenth isn’t a holiday just for Black people. Everyone should celebrate freedom
6 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Juneteenth isn’t a holiday just for Black people. Everyone should celebrate freedom

LA Times  

Juneteenth is no more a holiday just for Black people than the Fourth of July is a holiday just for white people. 3 telling the people of the westernmost Confederate state that “all slaves are free.” Although the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect in 1863, it couldn’t be implemented until the Civil War ended and Confederate states surrendered. California’s lawmakers …

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Nikki Haley doesn’t mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War. She later walks that back
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Nikki Haley doesn’t mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War. She later walks that back

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked at a New Hampshire town hall about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response. Asked during Wednesday night’s town hall in Berlin what she believed had caused the war — the first shots of which were fired in her home state of South …

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Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo
1 year, 6 months ago

Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo

Salon  

I believe in the power of dates and remembrances. Although many towns across the United States from Arlington, Va., to Waterloo, N.Y., claim to have held the "original" Memorial Day, the holiday probably had dozens or hundreds of origins and diffused across the country. As Blight wrote, Black Americans who celebrated Memorial Day "converted Confederate ruin into their own festival …

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Mastriano wore Confederate uniform for faculty photo
2 years, 3 months ago

Mastriano wore Confederate uniform for faculty photo

Associated Press  

CARLISLE, Pa. — Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, three years before retiring from the U.S. Army, posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College. Reuters said it was told that faculty at the time were given the option of dressing as a historical figure, and while a few did so, only Mastriano is …

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Abraham Lincoln 213th birth anniversary: Some inspiring quotes from the 16th US president
2 years, 10 months ago

Abraham Lincoln 213th birth anniversary: Some inspiring quotes from the 16th US president

Firstpost  

During his tenure as the president, Lincoln abolished slavery and kept the country united during the American Civil War The birth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, falls today, 12 February. He is also known for issuing the Emancipation Declaration, which freed the slaves in the Confederate states rebelling against the US government in the …

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Juneteenth takes on new meaning amid push for racial justice
4 years, 6 months ago

Juneteenth takes on new meaning amid push for racial justice

Associated Press  

DETROIT — Protesters marched over the Brooklyn Bridge, chanted “We want justice now!” near St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, stopped work at West Coast ports and paused for a moment of silence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, as Americans marked Juneteenth with new urgency Friday amid a nationwide push for racial justice. In California’s Port of Oakland, …

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JUNETEENTH: WHEN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY SURRENDERED
4 years, 6 months ago

JUNETEENTH: WHEN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY SURRENDERED

Daily Mail  

Juneteenth has been considered America's 'second independence day' since June 19, 1865, when Union Army General George Granger walked into Galveston and declared the last slaves in Texas free Juneteenth, the day marking the emancipation of slaves in the US, was made a federal holiday last year. President Joe Biden put pen to paper at the White House last June …

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George Floyd protests: Edward Colston statue removed from Bristol's harbour, Thomas Lane released on bail
4 years, 6 months ago

George Floyd protests: Edward Colston statue removed from Bristol's harbour, Thomas Lane released on bail

ABC  

A statue of a slave trader has been fished out of Bristol's harbour, a police officer charged over the death of George Floyd has been released on bail and Amazon has banned police from using its facial recognition technology. The White House says it was President Donald Trump's "prerogative" to raise questions about an incident in Buffalo that saw police …

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Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders’ names from military bases
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump opposes efforts to remove Confederate commanders’ names from military bases

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he opposes any effort by the US military to rename the nearly one dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders. US Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Defense Secretary Mark Esper are said to be open to holding a “bipartisan conversation” about renaming nearly a dozen major bases …

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