Fifty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech in March in Washington, the families of Black Americans shot or killed by police on the same site will speak, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and Jacob Blake …
Read More »Amid the monument fury, Trump seeks the “garden” of American heroes
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. …
Read More »As the monuments fall, the Confederate carving has a side size
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – Some statues of figures from the past slave owner of the United States have been demolished by protesters, others dismantled by order of governors or city leaders. But the largest Confederate monument ever created, colossal figures carved out of solid rock on the side of a …
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