Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in 1851. He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia.

OMAHA — Police chiefs in Nebraska’s two largest cities said Tuesday they are unaware of any planned immigration raids or other enforcement activities coming to their areas as a result

Family and others carrying on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of equality, justice and nonviolent protest want Americans to remember that Monday's holiday is really about helping others.

What Trump did in his first inaugural speech was to paint a picture of a very dark reality, one that included not only “American carnage” but a landscape blighted by “rusted-out factories,

“With malice toward none, with charity for all,” even after four years of horrific war.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned to read from. An excellent orator, he adjusted the spacing, apparently for cadence and dramatic effect.

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Pennsylvania high school girls and boys basketball scores. Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School 62, The City School 25 Mercersburg Academy 56, Pennington, N.J. 45

A crowd estimated by police at 1,500 march silently through Omaha's predominately black area Sunday to mourn the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The March was followed by a memorial service at a community church. Hundreds stood outside the packed church to hear pleas of non-violence. April 8, 1968.

By: Cris Kohl The big current news is the pending inauguration of a new U. S. president. The Jan. 20 swearing-in of Donald Trump stirs up recollections of another future president, namely Abraham Lincoln,

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