Black People : Fox Soul Cancels Farrakhan Fourth of July Speech After Outrage From ADL, Tapper

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Fox Soul Cancels Farrakhan Fourth of July Speech After Outrage From ADL, Tapper

Fox Soul Cancels Farrakhan Speech After Outrage From ADL, Tapper

Fox TV’s Black-oriented streaming service, Fox Soul, abruptly canceled a Fourth of July program featuring Minister Louis Farrakhan on Monday after the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, among other critics, slammed plans for a live broadcast of...

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The Daily Beast

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New Yahoo News/YouGov July 4 poll: A staggering 62 percent of Americans no longer see America as Ronald Reagan's 'shining city on a hill'

New Yahoo News/YouGov July 4 poll: A staggering 62 percent of Americans no longer see America as Ronald Reagan's 'shining city on a hill'

This Fourth of July, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that no matter how polarized they might be politically, Americans finally seem to agree on one thing: America itself is getting worse.

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Yahoo News

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How Black Americans Co-opted the Fourth of July
After the Civil War, white southerners saw the Fourth of July as a celebration of Confederate defeat. Black southerners saw opportunities

How Black Americans Co-opted the Fourth of July | JSTOR Daily

After the Civil War, white southerners saw the Fourth of July as a celebration of Confederate defeat. Black southerners saw opportunities.

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The political climate changed in the 1870s as the federal government abandoned Reconstruction and local Memphis elites led a successful movement to dissolve the city charter, reducing the power of Black voters. By the 1890s, white southerners were again embracing the Fourth of July. But, Page writes, to Black Memphis residents, it “once again became a far off promise of equality as the words of the Declaration of Independence were voiced, but proved to have little meaning, in the Jim Crow South.”

A Fourth of July picnic, possibly in South Carolina, 1874, by J. A. Palmer


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Shameful way to celebrate




Trump boasts about accomplishments in July 4th video

Trump returns to defense of statues, attacks media in July 4th remarks

President Donald Trump returned to a theme he hammered home while at Mount Rushmore a day earlier during remarks at July Fourth celebrations, labeled the "Salute to America," outside the White House on Saturday. In the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody and calls

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ABC News
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Kanye West announces 2020 presidential bid in bizarre 4th of July tweet

Kanye West announces 2020 presidential bid in bizarre 4th of July tweet

"We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States!" West posted, setting off fireworks across the Twitterverse.

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