Independence Day
Nike nixes flag design shoe after Kaepernick questions white supremacist symbolism
July 3, 2019Although some extremist groups have appropriated the flag, it is not widely viewed as a symbol of hate.
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Letter from prison: Communist leader Carl Winter on the 4th of July
July 3, 2019Carl Winter was among the first to be falsely convicted under the anti-communist Smith Act in 1949.
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First martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks
July 3, 2019It would take a “second American revolution”—the Civil War—to break the U.S. slaveholder class.
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Langston Hughes: Let America be America again
July 3, 2019Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be, but not yet is.
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