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Question of the Day By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times - Monday, December 28, 2020
The House is expected to vote Monday to override President Trump’s veto of the must-pass annual defense policy bill after it secured a veto-proof majority in its passage earlier this month despite repeated veto threats from the White House.
Mr. Trump last week vetoed the major defense bill as promised, citing its failure to repeal legal protections for social media giants, plus its renaming of military bases that are tributes to Confederates, and other objections.
The enduring lessons of a New Deal writers project
In 1937, Sterling A. Brown, a poet and literature professor at Howard University, published a forthright essay charting the history of Black life in his hometown of Washington, DC from the district’s early status as the “very seat and center” of the domestic slave trade through the present-day effects of disenfranchisement and segregation. “In this border city, southern in so many respects, there is a denial of democracy, at times hypocritical and at times flagrant,” Brown wrote. “Social compulsion forces many who would naturally be on the side of civic fairness into hopelessness and indifference.”