WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has a vision for his second term, if he wins one, of establishing a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will honor some of the most prominent figures in the history of the United States, a collection of ” the best Americans will always live. …
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It is considered one of the best speeches in the history of the United States, delivered at a Rochester, New York, Independence Day event in 1852 by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. “It is the birthday of their national independence and their political freedom,” he said, noting: “The distance between this platform …
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House Democrats agreed to make Washington DC the 51st state in the nation, which would grant voting representation to the more than 700,000 residents of the capital. If approved, the DC of the District of Columbia would become Douglass Commonwealth, honoring abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and their state would create a …
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President Donald Trump has said removing the statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in Washington, DC “is not going to happen” while he is around, but the delegate representing the city in Congress is trying to do that. Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is black, said she will …
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