It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — it’s name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated
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Written By Lexx Thornton Tennessee State University has reached an agreement with the state of Tennessee that allows the university to reallocate $96 million to support its operational needs over the next three years. The funds — which were previously allocated for deferred maintenance — make up a portion of the $250 million that the
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based on their political beliefs or marital status. The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into
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Written By Lexx Thornton While Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces opposition in Los Angeles and other sites targeted as part of President Donald Trump’s “Mass Deportation Program,” the agency may face another threat: a funding battle in Congress.As reported by Axios, ICE is “burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining,
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