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Juneteenth, Trump, and the Making of an American Holiday
There is no shortage of gaffes from this current presidential administration when it comes to opining on the African American past. First, there was Donald Trump’s commentary last year, on the 19th century radical abolitionist Frederick Douglass, whose death he … Continue reading
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