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Are you a subject, or a citizen?
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May 24, 2026 at 1:01 PM
250 years ago today, the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution calling on any colony without a revolutionary government to form one. #AmericaAt250
May 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Paul Cuffe has largely been snubbed from the country’s list of great patriots, adventurers, businessmen, philanthropists, educators, and civil rights icons. Yet his remarkable life could be on the shortlist of the greatest Americans in any of these categories.
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The revolutionary imprisonments of Paul Cuffe - The New Bedford Light
Both the British and the Americans jailed him for believing in the tenets of the Revolution. A ship’s captain and the son of a slave, he defied a British blockade — then refused to pay taxes without r...
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June 29, 2026 at 12:18 PM
"We knew it would piss people off. In fact, we hoped it would." — Publisher Elinor Tatum & Executive Editor Madison Gray

We explain the cover everyone is talking about. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4oWU4rA 

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July 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM
250 years ago today, Virginia’s revolutionary government voted unanimously to instruct its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to seek independence. #AmericaAt250

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May 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM
250 years ago today, the Second Continental Congress met for the first time, three weeks after the battles at Lexington and Concord.

12 of 13 colonies were represented. Georgia would not send representatives until July.

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May 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
250 years ago today, Sir James Wright, the royal governor of Georgia, is arrested and imprisoned by a rebel militia. #AmericaAt250
January 18, 2026 at 8:31 PM
July 4, 1776. "All men are created equal."

That same day — 500,000 enslaved Black people lived in the 13 colonies.

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July 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

- Samuel Johnson
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May 24, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Before Wall Street was the financial capital of the world, it was something else.

NYC's slave market stood there from 1711.

Read this 👉 https://bit.ly/4wpHm7m 

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July 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"Poor air quality & stifling heat didn’t keep a large crowd of journalists, nonprofit leaders & others from convening at ImpactHouse for ‘America @ 250: A Journalism Reckoning’ … “

Read Chicago Media Journal's story today on Thursday’s historic event: lnkd.in/gd3w-Mjd

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July 20, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The New York Amsterdam News has been telling the truth since 1909.

This week's cover: a burning Confederate flag.

Some things don't change.amsterdamnews.com/america250 #UnfinishedBusiness #AmericaAt250 #America250
July 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
America turns 250 today. The NY Amsterdam News turns the page.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Our special issue is live.
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July 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
On the eve of America's 250th birthday, the words of Langston Hughes still ring true. Read James Counts Early's full essay in our Unfinished Business issue: https://bit.ly/4gpjQTn 

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July 3, 2026 at 12:06 PM
250 years ago today, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee moves a resolution at the Second Continental Congress to declare that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” #AmericaAt250
June 7, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Through "She Speaks: Black Women Artists and the Power of Historical Memory," a new Annapolis exhibit, Black women artists explore 250 years of U.S. history www.wmar2news.com/america250/b... #americaat250
Black women artists explore 250 years of U.S. history in new Annapolis exhibit
A new Annapolis exhibit spotlights 17 Black women artists exploring 250 years of U.S. history through January 2027.
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July 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Black Wall Street. 1921. Burned to the ground while police watched.

The wealth gap was engineered — not earned.

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July 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
AmNews Publisher Elinor Tatum & Executive Editor Madison Gray explain our July 4th cover. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4oWU4rA 

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July 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Thanks to the Sag Harbor Historical Museum for including me in today’s symposium, Sag Harbor in the Revolution—featuring a wide range of perspectives and approaches from our recently published volume, edited by Zachary Studenroth.

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August 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Trump axed a Black history exhibit highlighting enslaved people's ties to Harpers Ferry. Former park rangers are teaching it anyway. www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n... These history teach-ins by #resistancerangers are my kind of carrying on. #americaat250
Trump axed a Black history exhibit. Former park rangers are teaching it anyway.
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.
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June 28, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Sports has always been a mirror of America's racial reality.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4xYTttz

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July 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
2/3 🧵

I will not celebrate this July 4th, but I will reflect by watching the multi-generational descendants of Frederick Douglass read: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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June 28, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Yusef Jackson / Rainbow PUSH: "Our most powerful nonviolent instrument for change is our vote."

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#VoteBlack #AmericaAt250
We have struggled too long to leave America’s promise unfulfilled
This country was founded on the fundamental proposition of embracing all races and national origins.
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July 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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June 23, 2026 at 7:25 PM