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Emancipation
juneteenth
June 17, 2021
Juneteenth Is Now a Federal Holiday
“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden said as he signed the bill establishing a holiday marking the end of slavery.
By
Ed Kilgore
what’s past is prologue
June 19, 2020
What Will It Take to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday?
The long struggle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers lessons that could ease the path to making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
By
Ed Kilgore
medicare for all
Nov. 5, 2019
Elizabeth Warren Sees Health Care As a Civil-Rights Struggle. That Bothers Some.
Some have taken issue with her comparison of today’s fight for universal health care to past civil-rights struggles.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice