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Alfonso
Ribeiro will host the 45th annual edition of PBS' A Capitol
Fourth concert in Washington. The program, which celebrates
Independence Day, will be broadcast live from the West Lawn
of the U.S. Capitol on July 4th. More
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 Every
July 4th, a television station will send a reporter out on
the street, or to the beach, to ask everyday Americans what
the 4th of July is, and why we are celebrating it. The
answers are disturbing.
A
recent survey showed only 13 percent of Americans know
when the U.S. Constitution was ratified, six in 10 don't
know which countries the United States fought in World War
II, and less than a quarter of Americans asked know why we
fought the British during the Revolutionary War. More |
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A collection of more than
a dozen people's history stories from July 4th beyond 1776.
The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when
slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick
Douglass's speech ''The Meaning of July Fourth for the
Negro'' (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black
militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of
segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and
more.
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Avon, Minnesota is about as
close to Lake Wobegon as you can get, so it's where Garrison
Kellior observed the 35th anniversary of ''A Prairie Home
Companion'' in 2009, and I was there. More |

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