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Daytona program to honor McLeod-Bethune

Daytona program to honor McLeod-Bethune
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House votes to remove Confederate statues and replace Roger B Taney bust

House votes to remove Confederate statues and replace Roger B. Taney bust CNN 1 hr ago By Alex Rogers, CNN © J. Scott Applewhite/AP/FILE FILE - In this March 9, 2020 file photo, a marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The House will vote on whether to remove from the U.S. Capitol a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African Americans couldn t be citizens. The vote expected Wednesday comes as communities nationwide reexamine the people memorialized with statues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol

House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol Cristina Marcos © Getty Images House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would remove artwork from the Capitol that honors people with legacies of defending slavery, including by serving the Confederacy. The 285-120 vote was bipartisan, but it split Republicans. A minority of 67 Republicans joined with all Democrats in support, while 120 voted against it. We ought not to forget history. We must learn from history. But we ought not to honor that which defiled the principles for which we think we stand, said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the bill s primary author. It s time to remove those symbols of slavery, segregation and sedition from these halls.

House votes to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol

House votes to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol AP By Alex Rogers, CNN The House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice. The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill. The House passed a similar resolution last year on a bipartisan basis but it stalled after Republicans in the Senate argued that the states should decide which statues they’d like to display in the Capitol. The legislation has a better chance to pass now that Democrats hold the Senate majority.

Volunteers Needed For July 5 Beach Cleanup

Jun 29, 2021 | 4:53 PM Daytona Beach, FL – 4th of July fireworks are all fun and games until you see the mess they leave when the sun comes up next morning. And it’s not just spent fireworks that make up the mess on Volusia County’s beaches after July 4, it’s food, plates, cups, cigarettes, broken beach chairs and worst of all, plastic bags, six-pack rings and straws. That’s why Volusia County’s environmental specialists are asking volunteers to join them in removing debris the morning of July 5. There will be two coordinated cleanups between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. at two New Smyrna Beach sites: Flagler Avenue Beachfront Park on Buenos Aires Street and Mary McLeod Bethune Beach Park on Atlantic Avenue. You can also pick your favorite spot on the beach as your zone to clean up if you wish. And you can even record the trash you pick up using the Clean Swell app and contribute to Ocean Conservancy research. And don’t forget that vags with trash should be placed inside an

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