'What Took Us So Long?': Black Caucus Members Propose Awarding 200,000 Black Civil War Vets Congressional Gold Medal

Two politicians, descendants of enslaved African-Americans, are proposing that hundreds of thousands of Black people who fought for the nation during the

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