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The project tells the "unvarnished truth" of slavery. We will face the horrors of our past, as well as the triumph of our progress. It is a telling that is long overdue.
August 15, 2019
His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
Your Excellency:
Israel's right to exist with security is widely accepted in the United States. I just visited Krakow, Poland two weeks ago and toured Auschwitz again. The horror of that protracted nightmare must never be forgotten.
July 27 marked the 66th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which brought an end to hostilities that killed nearly five million people, including almost 40,000 U.S. service members.
The war ended in a temporary cease-fire, which is why the United States still maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea. Nuclear missiles ring the region and threaten the people living there. North and South remain divided, separating thousands of families.
The horrifying and heartbreaking news of the domestic terrorist attacks in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in less than 24 hours over the weekend reached me while I was in Poland, a country haunted by the deadly power of politically irresponsible and racist rhetoric.
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Friday, August 2, 2019
Dream of a World Free from Intimidation, Bigotry and Violence
OSWIECIM, Poland – On the evening of Aug. 2, 1944, SS guards swept through the so-called “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau here and rounded up more than 4,000 men, women and children, the last large contingent of Sinti and Roma still left alive at the factory of death.
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Thursday, August 1, 2019
Rev. Jackson Meets with Holocaust Survivors and Young Activists in Poland and Declares “Your Struggle is Our Struggle”
Our democracy is in peril, but we the people can preserve it.
The Senate Intelligence Committee last week startled the nation with a democracy shaking report entitled “Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure.”
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Rev. Jackson to Speak at Ceremonies in Poland Marking European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
Sometimes called the “Forgotten Holocaust,” up to 500,000 Sinti and Roma – classified and persecuted as “Gypsies” – were massacred by the Nazis during World War II.
South Carolina’s James Louis Petigru was a Civil War-era lawyer, judge, congressman and most notably the attorney general who opposed South Carolina’s use of nullification of federal laws and, after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, opposed state secession.
He famously quipped, after learning that his state had seceded from the Union, “South Carolina is too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum.”
