News Roundup: Manchin's egomania might be insurmountable; parliamentarian shmentarian

Hello Friday, folks! The weekend is here. If you need to do last-minute shopping for holiday events, make sure you wear a mask and wash your hands! The only time I ever hope that there is a hell is …

Juneteenth highlights the gap between rhetoric and reality about who’s actually ‘free’ in America

This story was originally published at Prism. 

For two and a half years, enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, were both free and not free. According to the soaring words of the Emancipation …

Juneteenth is an official holiday, so don't let 14 Republicans tarnish this moment. Joe Biden didn't

It finally happened. President Joe Biden signed into law a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday on Thursday following passage of the bill in both chambers of Congress. He thanked Mrs. Opal Lee, …