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CBS News
15 hours ago
- General
- CBS News
Minnesotans celebrate Juneteenth through food, music and history lessons
Across Minnesota, communities came together to celebrate a day that's more than a holiday, but the heartbeat of freedom. Juneteenth, now recognized as a federal holiday, is more than a day off; it's an important reminder of freedom delayed but never denied. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Texas learned they were free. In south Minneapolis, people gathered for food and music as children jumped Double Dutch. In north Minneapolis, there was a parade full of excitement. But at Historic Fort Snelling, people took a different approach. More than 400 people took a guided tour on the grounds where slavery once existed. Dred and Harriet Scott lived and labored there in the 1830s. A man whose fight for freedom was one of the most infamous Supreme Court decisions, where the courts denied Black people freedom. For Loretta Kennedy and her family, it was crucial to book the tour. "Everybody needs to know their name and who they were," Kennedy said. "If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here." It's a day filled with love and rooted in history and hope.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
2025 Juneteenth events in the east metro
Juneteenth is a federal holiday Thursday marking the day when slaves in Texas were told about the Emancipation Proclamation, two years after it had been announced. Minnesota also recognizes Juneteenth as a state holiday. State, county and city offices are closed, as are federal offices and banks. The following events are among those taking place in the Twin Cities in commemoration of the holiday: Rondo 2025 Juneteenth Celebration: The Rondo Center of Diverse Expressions is hosting its Juneteenth observance from noon to 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 19, at the Rondo Commemorative Plaza, 820 Rondo Avenue in St. Paul. Programmed events include speeches from public officials and the announcement of the recipients of the Spirit of Rondo awards and take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The theme this year is 'The Journey of Four Families.' In partnership with In Black Ink, organizers will reveal new exhibit panels on the Rondo Commemorative Plaza that tell the history and genealogical stories of several Rondo families. For more information go to Juneteenth at the Fort: To celebrate Juneteenth Fort Snelling is hosting a series of tours — from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 19 — focusing on African American history at the fort from it's inception in 1819 through the 1880s. There will be stories of enslaved people brought to the fort, many of whom fought for their freedom in court, including Dred and Harriet Scott. The tour also will explore the history of the 25th Infantry, which was stationed at Fort Snelling in the 1880s, and their regimental band. The hour-long tours will be offered at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Tours may fill quickly and are on a first come first served basis. The fort is located at 200 Tower Ave. in St. Paul. For more information go to ftsnelling@ Feeding Our Souls: The Essence of Juneteenth Joy with Dr. Jessica B. Harris: Culinary historian, author of several books including High on the Hog, winner of two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award, and James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement award winner Dr. Jessica B. Harris will hold a conversation with Minnesota History Center CEO Kevin Lindsey on the topic of how food shapes our identities and understandings of cultural heritage. After the program, organized by the Minnesota Humanities Center, guests are invited to taste samples of several area chefs' signature dishes. The event is $25 and is from 5:15 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at the Minnesota History Center, at 345 W. Kellogg Blvd. in St. Paul. For more information go to Juneteenth Brunch & Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill: Sherrilyn Ifill, the Vernon Jordan Professor of Law of Civil Rights at Howard University School of Law and former President and director–counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., will take part in a conversation and brunch from 9:15 to 11 a.m. Thursday, June 19, at Quincy Hall, 1325 Quincy St N.E., Minneapolis. The event, organized by the Minnesota Humanities Center, is $100. For more information go to Juneteenth Family Day with Anika Foundation: The Minnesota Humanities Center is sponsoring the Anika Foundation Juneteenth Family Celebration! The event is free and will feature family-friendly fun, games, and community. The event is from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at the State Capitol in St. Paul. For more information go to Vadnais Heights Freedom Day Festival: The Vadnais Heights Community Action Network and the city of Vadnais Heights are hosting Vadnais Heights Freedom Day Festival from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, at Kohler Meadows Park, at 365 County Road F East in Vadnais Heights. This year's event features live music, food, art, education, and family fun. Shemeka Bogan, of the Strong Roots Foundation, will be event emcee. Bogan is co-founder of the Northside Juneteenth Celebration, a nonprofit that has been lifting up Juneteenth on the Minneapolis Northside for the past six years. The event is free to attend, but meal tickets must be reserved by registering at Eventbrite at To keep the event free organizers have an online auction that will run through June 24, raising money for next year's celebration. For more information go to: Juneteenth Family Day Celebration: West St. Paul's Residents of Color Collective is hosting a Juneteenth celebration from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at the Dodge Nature Center at the Main Property, Farm Entrance, 1701 Charlton Street, West St. Paul. The event will feature shopping from BIPOC-owned businesses, learning with Dodge naturalists, arts and crafts activities, live music and food available for purchase. For more information at go Honoring Resilience: Woodbury for Justice and Equality will be hosting a Juneteenth celebration, 'Honoring the Resilience,' from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Ojibway Park in Woodbury. Those attending can enjoy food from local vendors, live music and dance, and games, crafts and educational opportunities for all ages. More information: Juneteenth Celebration at First Covenant Church: First Covenant Church is hosting a Juneteenth event from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 18. The church is located at 1280 Arcade St. in St. Paul. There will be food, music, games, art, and community resources. After surviving collapse, fire and Dillinger escape, Dakota County swing bridge begins new chapter Germanic-American Institute's German Days will have a Swiss twist this weekend St. Paul street dance festival will feature local and out-of-state performers Lowertown Sounds kickoff postponed due to impending storms Maplewood: Goodrich Golf Course reopens with upgrades to grounds, environment
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Trashes the U.S. as a ‘STUPID Country' of ‘SUCKERS' in Birthright Citizenship Rant
President Donald Trump ranted against the U.S. and its centuries-long tradition of birthright citizenship, saying the U.S. is a 'STUPID Country' of 'SUCKERS,' as the Supreme Court prepared to take up the issue Thursday. In January, Trump signed an executive order declaring that children of immigrants are not entitled to U.S. citizenship despite the 14th Amendment to the Constitution's guarantee that 'all persons born' in the U.S. are citizens. Three federal judges had stopped the order from taking effect, and on Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case. 'Birthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the 'SUCKERS' that we are!' Trump wrote that morning in a Truth Social post. 'The drug cartels love it! We are, for the sake of being politically correct, a STUPID Country,' he added. The issue hasn't got anything to do with political correctness, though, and everything to do with the Constitution. The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause states: 'All persons born… in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.' Adopted in July 1868, the amendment overturned the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, the Supreme Court's 1857 ruling that held that even free African Americans were not U.S. citizens. Thirty years later, in 1898, the court held in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark that children of immigrants were entitled to citizenship based on the 14th Amendment even if their parents didn't qualify. Nevertheless, Trump offered what he called 'conclusive proof' that 'Birthright Citizenship is about the babies of slaves.' 'The Civil War ended in 1865, the Bill went to Congress less than a year later, in 1866, and was passed shortly after that,' he wrote. 'It had nothing to do with Illegal Immigration for people wanting to SCAM our Country, from all parts of the World, which they have done for many years.' 'It had to do with Civil War results, and the babies of slaves who our politicians felt, correctly, needed protection,' he continued. 'Please explain this to the Supreme Court of the United States.' But according to Boston College professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson, while the 14th Amendment did in fact overturn the Dred Scott decision, it wasn't intended to grant citizenship only to Black Americans. In the 1860s, the U.S. was also home to tens of thousands of American Indians, Chinese immigrants and people of other races. The civil rights bill that Congress originally passed in 1866 said, 'all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color… shall have the same right[s] in every State and Territory in the United States,' Cox Richardson wrote on her Substack Letters from an American in late April. President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill, saying that if the Constitution already made all 'native-born' people citizens, Congress didn't need to pass a bill saying so. And if they weren't already citizens under the Constitution, Congress shouldn't make them citizens, Johnson argued. According to Cox Richardson, Congress took those words to heart when drafting the 14th Amendment. Instead of conferring citizens on specific groups, it explicitly acknowledged that the Constitution had already established citizenship for 'all people' born in the U.S. and under its jurisdiction (which at the time excluded Indigenous Americans). Just a few decades later, the Supreme Court had to decide whether the 14th Amendment also applied to children of immigrants. In 1882, the U.S. passed the Chinese Exclusion Act declaring that Chinese immigrants could not become citizens. But Wong Kim Ark, a cook who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, sued to have his citizenship recognized. The court's majority found that under the English common law system—which the U.S. system is based on—children born to alien parents were natural-born subjects 'within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign.' The only exceptions were diplomats serving foreign states and members of invading armies. The same rule was in force in the English colonies prior to the Declaration of Independence and 'continued to prevail under the Constitution,' the court wrote. The Chinese Exclusion Act therefore did not apply to Wong Kim Ark, the court decided in 1898—at a time that few people would describe as 'politically correct.' Trump, however, seems to suggest the U.S. at the time was literally Black and white. 'Again, remember, the Civil War ended in 1865, and the Bill goes to Congress in 1866—We didn't have people pouring into our Country from all over South America, and the rest of the World,' he wrote on Truth Social. 'It wasn't even a subject. What we had were the BABIES OF SLAVES.'
Washington Post
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Live updates: Supreme Court to focus on nationwide orders in birthright citizenship case
Attorneys for the Trump administration have called nationwide injunctions against the president's agenda an 'epidemic.' Legal scholars say nationwide injunctions were sparse before the 1960s, but recent presidential administrations have seen more and more. The 14th Amendment was adopted after the Civil War to establish citizenship for freed Black Americans, as well as 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' The citizenship clause reversed the Supreme Court's infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which had denied citizenship to Black Americans. Twenty-two Democratic-led states and immigrant advocacy groups suing over the ban on birthright citizenship warn of chaos, confusion and disparate state-by-state policies if the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration order to take effect in the rest of the country. The Supreme Court will hold a special session Thursday morning to review a case involving President Donald Trump's effort to ban automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors. The Trump administration has asked the justices to lift or narrow orders imposed by three lower-court judges that have blocked his policy from taking effect while its legality is tested in court. Here's what to know about the case.
Wall Street Journal
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Abe Lincoln's Reservations About Judicial Rule
Regarding 'Trump's Dangerous Disregard for the Courts' (Politics & Ideas, March 26): William A. Galston is right when he says that 'checks and balances and the rule of law are the surest institutional protections for liberty.' He quotes Abraham Lincoln on his opposition to the decision in Dred Scott (1857), which he vowed at the time to reverse through legal means. But Lincoln was referring to a decision from the Supreme Court (established by the Constitution), not a lower court (created by Congress). Nor does Mr. Galston mention Lincoln's concern about government policy on 'vital questions affecting the whole people' being 'irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the instant they are made.' In such cases 'the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, . . . having practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.' In April 1864, he wrote: 'I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution.' More than 10 million aliens were allowed into this country during the Biden years. The president has an Article II duty to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.' Is he supposed to do nothing while a lower court decides whether he must give a hearing to thousands of violent aliens? That, as Lincoln would surely agree, is preposterous. Robert DiNino Glastonbury, Conn.
