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Many parents and teachers made a shocking discovery during the celebration of America’s 250th birthday. When cursive print versions of the Declaration of Independence flashed on the TV screen, on a magazine or newspaper cover, or were posted in the classroom, many middle schoolers couldn’t read it. When asked to read the preamble to the…

As we turn the page on our first 250 years as a country, it is remarkable how far we have come in terms of intermarriage. Marriage between Black people and white people was banned in many colonies (later states) as well as between other races. It was only 59 years ago, in the 1967 Loving…