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The book also explains how Congress was granted the power to summon the militia to “suppress insurrections,” and how [the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified during Reconstruction, which established legal ...
Los Angeles — When Nikole Hannah-Jones' "The 1619 Project: The New Origin Story" was greenlighted, she didn't want to mince words in her sweeping and eye-opening exploration of slavery and its legacy ...