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2 Jul 2019, 6:57 am
Trump is scheduled to deliver his Fourth of July speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, becoming the first president in decades to participate in the annual Independence Day event.... [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 3:06 pm by Public Employment Law Press
Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday, June 18, 2020,  declaring Juneteenth — a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — a holiday for employees of the State as the employer.The holiday, also known as Freedom Day, falls annually on June 19, the same day in 1865 that a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved African Americans that the Civil War had ended and they had been freed – more than two years after President Abraham… [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 9:04 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
” When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time. [read post]
1 Sep 2013, 3:52 am by Jon Gelman
At the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday, I couldn’t help but wonder if The Rev. [read post]
2 Mar 2019, 3:38 am
It reads:A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 4:56 am
"Said L’Merchie Frazier, the education director at the nearby Museum of African American History in Boston, quoted in "Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning/Amid the national reckoning on racism, an unlikely monument is facing scrutiny: a Boston memorial to a famed Civil War unit made up of Black soldiers. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 12:07 pm
According to witnesses, the silver Lincoln sedan was speeding when it spun out of control and crashed into the campus entrance, barely missing bystanders at a nearby bus stop. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 7:17 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
If he ever bothers to walk down the street to the Lincoln Memorial, he will see emblazoned on its walls the answer to that claim:The Almighty has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now… [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 6:55 am by Todd Janzen
 The cathedrals of Europe, the Parthenon, and the Lincoln Memorial are all great examples. [read post]
28 May 2014, 12:47 pm by Idaho State Police
Fisher, 53, were both transported by ground ambulance to Minidoka Memorial Hospital. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 10:44 am
One individual has been pronounced dead and others were transported to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 10:00 am
The Ford taxicab had two passengers, a 23-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, who were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago with non-life threatening injuries. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 4:06 am
 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, First Inaugural Address,  Monday March 4, 1861. [read post]
16 Apr 2016, 7:36 pm by Jon Katz
The April 15  Washington Post has an interesting article addressing the differences among the Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park and the African American Civil War Memorial around three miles away, including the controversy surrounding a freed slave kneeling by President Lincoln in a statue — paid for by freed slaves — at Lincoln Park, where I previously practiced taijiquan severa times on Saturday mornings before switching to my… [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 10:16 am
King will be the first African American to have a place in the mall, which incldes the Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt memorials and the Washington Monument.This is a fitting exclamation point for the King legacy. [read post]