The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
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Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
WASHINGTON (AP) — The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that ...
With a nod to America's civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
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Civil Rights Groups Say Push to Dismantle Education Department Will Undo Hard-Won Gains
The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at least the Civil War — have long been intertwined with the principle ...