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2. Independence Day (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America . The Founding Father delegates of the Second Continental Congress declared ...

3. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Wikipedia

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   Frederick Douglass. Transcript of speech. " What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? " [ 1][ 2] was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. [ 3] In the address, Douglass states that positive statements about ...

4. Wayland Flowers - Wikipedia

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   Years active. 1964–1988. Wayland Parrott Flowers Jr. (November 26, 1939 – October 11, 1988) was an American actor, comedian and puppeteer. [ 1] Flowers was best known for the comedy act he created with his puppet Madame. His performances as "Wayland Flowers and Madame" were a major national success on stage and on screen in the 1970s and 1980s.

5. Curtis Flowers - Wikipedia

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   Curtis Giovanni Flowers (born May 29, 1970) [ 1] is an American man who was tried for murder six times in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal. Flowers was alleged to have committed the July 16, 1996, shooting deaths of four people inside Tardy Furniture store in ...

6. House Democrat says posters of hostages held in Gaza were ...

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   Schneider said it would be a shameful act any day, but especially on the July 4 holiday. "I've been disgusted by the videos and reports of individuals calling July 4th a 'terrorist holiday' and ...

7. José Torres Gil makes BMX history for Argentina during ‘best ...

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   Triumph and tragedy are everywhere you look at the Olympics, and the men’s BMX park final on Wednesday had a surfeit of both.. For tragedy, see how the pre-competition favorites – Australia ...

8. One-drop rule - Wikipedia

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   The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1][ 2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...

9. Flavor Flav helps Olympic discus thrower Veronica Fraley who ...

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   August 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Vanderbilt's discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley lamented on social media that she needed help paying the rent. Hip-hop artist ...