Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 20, 2024
7min0
'She has proven to be an advocate for the marginalized and has spent her career developing solutions for everyday people of this district.'
Tag: Emancipation Proclamation
Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 20, 2024
Scott PowersFebruary 14, 2022
4min0
Bracy says his emancipation bill has Republican leaders' support.
Martin DyckmanDecember 9, 2016
7min529
Donald Trump, who stays up late watching himself being satirized on “Saturday Night Live” and snarling at his critics on Twitter, could make better use of his time by reading some American history—specifically, about Abraham Lincoln. Granted, “Trump” and “Lincoln” don’t seem to belong in the same sentence, but there are parallels, and a distinction, […]
Daniel TilsonJune 18, 20146min188
Juneteenth is a too-little-known annual day of celebration and reflection observed every June 19, commemorating the actual end of American slavery in 1865. It’s the day on which 149 years ago in Galveston, Texas, Gen. Gordon Granger and Union Army soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, by freeing all […]