Juneteenth
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For Juneteenth this year, Lift Every Voice and Sing
How can an American not hear without national pride the ascending melody and stirring words, "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave," with which each verse closes? If your great-grandparents were slaves in the "land of the free," you may hear those words differently. Although The Star-Spangled Banner did not…
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A federal judge says it’s “madness” to remove Confederate names from bases because there were good people on both sides. A brave clerk puts him in his place
Laurence Silberman, a federal judge on the court of appeals for the District of Columbia, kicked off this year's Juneteenth week with a screed to his court. One of the court's law clerks politely set him to rights. Ten military bases in the United States are named after Confederate officers — the only instances I'm…