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It happened 250 years ago this very week… “I do not think myself equal to the Command I am honored with.”  It was with these ...

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Mother Emanuel is the largest African American church in Charleston and one of the oldest AME churches south of the ...

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Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... Washington is unanimously elected as the first president of the United States under the Constitution. He serves two terms but refuses ...