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Frederick Douglass gave this speech in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. Some now give this speech the title, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA.

Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

A sketch in his notebook might become the basis for a comic, Schumann said. "Instead of leaving it hidden on those pages," he said, "start drawing away and make it public.

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.

The U.S. military has 29 known military bases in 15 of the African countries.

The court’s decision sends an ominous signal that it will use the major questions doctrine to strike down other regulations that limit corporate profits.

Amazon is posing as a friend to veterans who need jobs when they return home from military service — while mistreating those veterans just as brutally as any other Amazon worker.

Amazon’s subversive smash hit has irked some fans with a more overtly political season that dares to position the show’s villain as a Donald Trump stand-in

Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong with relying on their benevolence.