In a speech off Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump seemed to crawl as he stumbled over several words, most notably “totalitarianism.” The speech to commemorate Independence Day was an official presidential speech that sometimes felt more like a campaign event, and saw the president accuse “angry mobs” of deploying “cancel …
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It’s not a holiday for Colin Kaepernick, who criticized July 4 as a “celebration of white supremacy,” in a tweet. “Black people have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by the United States for centuries, and are expected to join in their commemoration of ‘independence’ as they enslave our ancestors. …
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Valtteri Bottas believes Mercedes is in a league of its own after crushing the opposition in qualifying for Formula 1’s return to racing in Austria. Lewis Hamilton had dominated practice by finishing at the top of the timesheet in all three sessions in an empty Red Bull Ring, but it …
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ATLANTA – With teams in two sports re-examining names deemed offensive to Native Americans, the Atlanta Braves on Saturday gave no indication that they are willing to consider a similar change. The Cleveland Indians said Friday that they are reconsidering their nickname. And a source told ESPN that the NFL’s …
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Despite public outrage and calls for its removal, the world’s largest Confederate monument has reopened just in time for the July 4 celebrations. Featuring a nine-story bas-relief stone of the Confederate “heroes” and slave owners, General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial …
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