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S. Carolina leaders call for removing Confederate flag from statehouse grounds
June 22, 2015The Confederate flag features prominently in photos of the white youth arrested and charged with the murders.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s final day: June 19th, 1953
June 19, 2015At the height of the Cold War anti-communist hysteria, the lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were extinguished. On the anniversary of their executions, their granddaughter has a message.
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To Mother Emanuel’s Denmark Vesey: your fight goes on!
June 19, 2015Fighting off racist attacks is nothing new for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
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Today in history: 150th anniversary of Juneteenth
June 19, 2015It honors the day when slaves in Texas heard they had been freed by Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
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Today in history: 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo
June 18, 2015Today marks the 200th anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon by the British Duke of Wellington and Prussian field marshal Gebhard Blücher.
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