One year and one day ago, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making June 19 a federal holiday marking the day the last slaves in the…
Many U.S. presidents have spoken on the occasion of Independence Day. Perhaps the most unique is an impromptu speech by Abraham Lincoln to a crowd, accompanied by a band, that…
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] I was a child in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. One day in 1961, a bus…