A promise to America’s children
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A promise to America’s children
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A promise to America’s children
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Thirty years ago, the idea of socially and medically experimenting on children to advance a controversial and unproven ideology was unthinkable. Today, it’s considered by some to be unquestionable. There is a full-court press to fully and finally embed transgender ideology in public life, especially with school-aged children, starting with the Equality Act.
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. One freedman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, “For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them.”
Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by African American troops, and the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was still unprepared to deal with the question of full citizenship for its newly freed black population. The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into
A Springfield-area lawmaker is taking another shot at “right-to-work” legislation.
The idea that it should be illegal for unions to require workers to join up and pay dues to hold certain jobs lost big at the ballot box three years ago.
Sen. Eric Burlison, R-Battlefield, says that s no reason not to try again.
In a committee hearing on a new bill Tuesday, Burlison told colleagues there’s still time “to right a wrong, to free people and employees from paying dues to an organization just because they want to be employed and have a job.”
In addition to giving new “freedom” to employees, Burlison said the change would also help entice employers currently shunning Missouri for right-to-work states that make up most of the South and Midwest.
Nicola Sturgeon s official residence has been dubbed a building of historic racial injustice by a council review of controversial landmarks in Edinburgh.
The home of the First Minister of Scotland was one of several buildings highlighted by the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group, lead by Scotland s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer, 80.
The review - launched by the city s SNP and Labour council coalition - has vowed to rectify the glorification of slavery in the city and would consider the removal of statues , The Daily Telegraph reports.
Bute House was formerly occupied by Jamaican sugar plantation owner John Innes Crawford.
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