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Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade
Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade by Mel Gurtov 996 words The New Know Nothings In the mid-19th century, an influential political party, the Know Nothings, carried on about the dangers of immigration—not from African slaves but from Europe. The Know Nothings faded out with the Civil War, but they have made a comeback—today’s Republican Party. When Donald Trump
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Woke — Weaponized language
Woke — Weaponized language by Bob Topper 760 words In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from trees in the Southern states. The year before, bluesman Lead Belly had recorded Scottsboro Boys, a ballad chronicling the prosecution of nine Black
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A Christmas story: The courage Jesus learned as a refugee
A Christmas story: The courage Jesus learned as a refugee by Kary Love 913 words Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight into why Jesus taught what he later