POLL: Fewer Than 4 In 10 African Americans Feel Positive When Hearing The National Anthem

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POLL: Fewer Than 4 In 10 African Americans Feel Positive When Hearing The National Anthem

Only 35% of African Americans feel positive when hearing the … Friday poll.

A plurality of African Americans, 42% feel neither positive nor … error of 3%. 22% of African Americans feel negative when hearing the …

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When James Lynch gave the speech that appears below, his great achievements lay in the future. Born in Baltimore in 1839, Lynch at the age of 24 went to South Carolina as one of the first A.M.E. missionaries to the freedmen and women. From 1866 to 1867, Lynch was editor of the Christian Recorder in

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