Column: Why many Americans refuse to talk honestly about Juneteenth (via latimesopinion)
, not to be outdone, actually honor King and Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, on the same day — which must make drawing parade routes very difficult.
In Alabama, a state representative who wrote a bill banning critical race theory in public education compared it to the indoctrination done in North Korea.
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