October 2020

September 29, 2020 5:01 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Military names can echo down through the ages, a fact underlined by the current fight in Washington, D.C., between President Trump and Congress, which has voted to strip the names of Confederate generals from several Southern Army bases. The president has vowed that won’t happen, but…

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The US Supreme Court issued a ruling which reinstated the requirement that absentee voters obtain a witness signature on their mail-in envelopes. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed to the court by the current president and supported by the current South Carolina senators, wrote the explanation for the court. US District Judge Childs prohibited, in September, the…

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BY DAN C. GOLDBERG  MAY 19, 2020 3:00 PM A black man had graduated the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877 and the Army had its first black general in 1940. But when World War II began, African Americans were not even allowed to enlist in the Navy’s general service. […] 16 African American…

Read More How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers (The Golden Thirteen) Helped Reshape the American Military

Voting isn’t an event. It is not a single moment that changes the world or changes our lives. It is a process, and like any process, if you only do parts of it, it doesn’t work. That means we have to vote over and over and over again to shape the choices we want and to…

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