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Sept 17, 1787 ~ The United States ConstiΒtution is approved but it includes three clauses allowing for the conΒtinuation of slavery even though it was supposed to be a document of freedom.
Meet Markenzy Lapointe
United States Attorney, the Haitian Immigrant in charge of the prosecution of an alleged assassin whose plot against the former president was foiled by Secret Service agents at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
An Ohio Sheriff is telling the public to write down the addresses of Kamala Harris supporters so that those who oppose can send illegal immigrants to the supporters of Harris.
The Portage County Sheriff, Bruce Zuchowski, took to Facebook and made a statement about what would happen if Kamala Harris became the next president of the United States.
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Sept 14, 1940 ~ With the Nazi army sweeping across Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Service Act, which required all men between 26 and 35 to register for the military draft. The decision also meant that Black men β unlike in the past β could join all branches of the U.S. military.
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Sept 13, 1962 ~ Mississippi Gov Ross Barnett defied the federal government in impassioned speech on statewide radio-television hookup, saying he would "interpose" the authority of the state between the University of Mississippi and federal judges who had ordered the admission of James H. Meredith. Barnett said, "There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration."
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Sept 12, 1992βDr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space when she was launched from the Kennedy Space Center as part of a joint U.S.-Japanese mission.
Since resigning from NASA, the multi-talented Jemison has started a company which aims to improve health care in Africa. In addition to her native English, Jemison speaks Russian, Japanese and the East African language of Swahili.
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Sept 11, 1962 ~ Two youths involved in voter registration drive in Mississippi wounded by shotgun blasts fired through the window of a home in Ruleville. James Forman, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), asked the president to "convene a special White House Conference to discuss means of stopping the wave of terror sweeping through the South, especially where SNCC worked on voter registration.
https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/black-power/sncc
Father of 11-year-old killed in Ohio crash says Trump and Vance are using his son 'as a political tool' and asks for apologies
The father of an 11-year-old Ohio boy who was killed last year when a minivan driven by a Haitian immigrant struck his school bus said Tuesday that Donald Trump and JD Vance were βmorally bankrupt politiciansβ who were using his dead son as a political tool.
The #PresidentialDebate is done now let's keep this momentum going. Up next, the Coach takes on the Couch.
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and GOP Sen. JD Vance of Ohio both agreed to participate in a debate hosted by the network on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
#VPDebate #HarrisWalz2024 #Coach #Politics #News #WeAreNotGoingBack
Kamala Harris' Campaign Selling Taylor Swift-Style Friendship Bracelets Following Endorsement
Mom, Grandma, and proud nurse. Doing my part to make the πa better place.
"I'm no better than anyone else, but I'm just as good" (#myGrandma)