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Jim Crow
Historians Are Raising Alarms About Another Civil War. What Took Them So Long?
Much is being made about the eminent historians who met with President Biden last week. According to The Washington Post, they felt compelled to raise alarms about currents events in American politics bearing unnerving parallels to those of the 1850s, namely the years preceding the Civil War. Their galvanizing fear is that we are polarizing… Read more.
Juneteenth: Thanks for the Holiday. Now Pay Up!
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Juneteenth a Holiday, Finally!
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It freed all slaves in the Southern States. But Union soldiers took two-and-a-half years to inform Galveston, Texas, of the Proclamation. Blacks enslaved there finally heard the news of their freedom on June 19, 1865. Juneteenth commemorates this unconscionable delay. Yet that delay is not nearly as unconscionable as the 140… Read more.