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He ordered that the slaves should be free from their bondage. Weecade ago and 1963, observed the 100 proclamation of that declaration signing. On the memorial of that fateful year, i was called upon as the last president to speak at Gettysburg Cemetery as the Vice President to speak at Gettysburg Cemetery, where a century before, words had been spoken which all of us have long remembered and on that occasion, i said this. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until...

The generalng with Services Administration and the National Park service to study the near and longterm need for pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capitol. We will develop a vision for which is homereet to so Many National treasures, including this building. I want to send a thanks to the National Parks service and recognize peter may. He is a fellow ncpc commissioner bud his day job is associate director for lands, resources, and planning. Locals may recognize these names as p...

In May 2022, the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Bryan Newland, released the first volume of an investigative report examining the complicity of hundreds of federal boarding schools in the destruction of indigenous nations. This is the perfect occasion to revisit and shed a light on one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

In every speech Nova Scotia Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard makes for Emancipation Day this year she’ll ask the same question: what’s next?

Slavery’s a sensitive subject, but so is the question of who gets to be an authority about language.