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Justices to Hear Case on Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage
A Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple is appealing a discrimination ruling, citing the First Amendment.
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Opinion | Justice Ginsburg and the Price of Equality
In a decision with an unexpected ending, the justice struck a blow against another law that treated men and women differently.
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Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists
"... a big, sweeping, old-fashioned speech delivered in New Orleans on Friday made such an impression on me. It was a reprieve. It was an antidote. But it also addressed matters that are forever tripping us up — race, history, healing — better than anything I’ve heard or read in a long time. It was the masterpiece we needed at the moment we needed it"
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Black parents use Civil War-era law to challenge Mississippi’s ‘inequitable’ schools
A lawsuit alleges the state has violated the terms of its readmission to the Union in 1870.
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Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans
For Malcolm Suber, the Confederate monuments that dot this Deep South city stand for white supremacy, pure and simple....For Frank B. Stewart Jr., a white New Orleans native, the city government’s plan to remove the statues...feels like an Orwellian attempt to erase history.
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A Path to America, Marked by More and More Bodies
Case 0435 died more than a mile from the nearest road, with an unscuffed MacGregor baseball in his backpack.
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When People of Color Defend Confederate Monuments
In New Orleans, African Americans and Native Americans are standing with those who have camped out in defense of Confederate monuments. Photojournalist Abdul Aziz needed to find out why.
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Disunion: A Conflict’s Acoustic Shadows
Today, the 154th anniversary "of the first engagement of the Civil War, the Confederacy’s attack on Fort Sumter, we ask again whether in our supposedly post-racial, globalized, 21st-century world those now seemingly distant battles of the mid-19th century still have any relevance."
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Disunion: An American Tragedy
We cannot come to terms with the Civil War because it presents us with an unacceptable kind of self-knowledge.
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Disunion: My Civil War Centennial
What would be remarkable, what would make this a great sesquicentennial, is if people stopped entertaining delusions about the terrible origins of this terrible war.
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Disunion: With Friends Like These …
Lucretia Mott, the Philadelphia Quaker famous for her work in the abolition and women’s rights movements, never met Abraham Lincoln. But Mott and many of her faith thought they knew him well enough to be wary
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Disunion: Burnside’s Police State
Near dawn on March 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside stepped off a train in Cincinnati....His orders from the War Department were to collect troops and prepare to lead an invasion of eastern Tennessee....he also had to deal with the roiling antiwar politics of the Ohio Valley.
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Disunion: How the Slave Trade Built America
We don’t know exactly when the last sale of enslaved persons occurred in Richmond, Va., known as “the great slave market of the South,” but it must have taken place before April 3, 1865.
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How Ida B. Wells Pioneered Civil Rights And Women’s Suffrage, Yet Remains Overlooked
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” By Abby Norman.
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Encryption for All: Why This American Tradition Must Be Upheld
On August 28, 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison from Paris about the French revolutionaries, relaying an important piece of strategic information: “Mirabeau is their chief…” By Sarah Elizabeth Adler.
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Lessons for “The Resistance” from the Bush Resistance
Trump’s ban of travelers from seven Muslim countries spawned a large backlash, showing that “the resistance” is still a thing. I suspect it will continue to be a thing, because Trump is going to do much which enrages people who already believe he is a fascist. By Ian Welsh.
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How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working. By Katherine W. Phillips.
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Mike Pence: Trump administration planning ‘full evaluation’ of [”]voter fraud[”]
In audio obtained by the Guardian, vice-president described investigation amid Trump’s unfounded claims that millions voted illegally in 2016 election. By Ben Jacobs, Sam Levin.
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Race And Feminism: Women’s March Recalls The Touchy History
Even as the march’s diversity was being celebrated, it was also causing tension. By Karen Grigsby Bates.
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The 9 biggest marches and protests in American history
An estimated 200,000 people will protest at the Women's March on Washington on January 21. Here's a look back at America's largest mass demonstrations.
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