To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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The March One August Day Still Goes On

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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a new day – on Aug. 28, 1963. That day brought a tremendous turning point for civil rights. Sixty years ago came a peaceful uprising, magnificent in scale, the greatest American 20th-century gathering. Contrast that to the white supremacist mob that laid siege to the Capitol. […]

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Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].