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In 1852, nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...