Civics in Seconds

Today, June 18th, we celebrate Father’s Day, a day set aside to honor and celebrate fathers and the influence our fathers have had on our lives. According to History.com, Father’s Day was established in the early 1900’s.  In 1908, a church in West Virginia sponsored a one-time event to honor […]

          Next week, America celebrates Juneteenth. Juneteenth honors the end of slavery in the United States. It marks the day, June 19, 1865, when federal troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and ensure that the state’s 250,000 slaves[1] were freed.[2]  […]

In politics, “woke” has many definitions and sometimes no definition at all. Listen to a political speech or commentary on a cable news station, and you may be left to wonder what being “woke” or “wokeism” really means. So what is wokeism?  According to the Cambridge Dictionary, wokeism is another […]