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Worth Watching Ellen's Comments on the Travel Ban

Days after Donald Trump signed an anti-immigration order, the President chose the award-winning movie Finding Dory as the first film screened by the new administration at the White House.

Ellen Degeneres, the voice of the lead character Dory, took to her show’s stage to let Trump know exactly how she feels about both the executive order and his movie choice. She brilliantly uses Finding Dory’s plot to talk about immigration, family, and helping refugees — sadly the American Bigot-in-Chief probably didn’t get the message.

History For Kids

Travel Back in time and enter ancient worlds, meet famous people and discover fascinating facts by exploring a wide selection of historical games and activities on BBC History For Kids.

Check out this History For Kids video collection below.

American Flags June 2015

US Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide

Gay Pride US Flag

The White House was illuminated in honor of same-sex marriage.Zach Gibson/The New York Times

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— Jonah Green (@jonah_green) June 26, 2015

Many Americans today are calling for the removal of the Confederate flag on statehouse grounds in South Carolina's capital. Read this article and find out about this controversial issue. I'm copying an excerpt below:
"The flag has no meaning "regardless" of politics, or above politics; its heritage is not exempt from history. Anyone can interpret anything any way they want, but if they claim historical sanction for their interpretation, then they'd best be accurate. And in that sense, history is clear: There is no revolutionary cause associated with the flag, other than the right for Southern states to determine how best to subjugate black people and to perpetuate slavery."

Is the confederate flag a racist symbol?

Calls to Drop Confederate Emblems Spread all across the USA

Neil Young & Steven Colbert 'Save The Earth Song'

Must See Epic Performance

For the past two weeks, the legendary rock star Neil Young has been very active in the promotion of his new political single, Who's Gonna Stand Up. With a new book (Special Deluxe: A memoir of Life and Cars) out and a new album on the way, Canadian singer and songwriter Neil Young had plenty of things to talk when he stopped by The Colber Report the other night.

When they were done chatting, Colbert joined Young for a comical take on his new single from his upcoming album, Storystone. Colbert introduced the performance as 'Neil Young and Crazy Host'. A very cool song about a very serious issue that affects the entire planet.
You can watch this epic and lovely performance now in the video below.

Neil Young Who's Gonna Stand Up lyrics.

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22 Maps that Show the Deepest Linguistic Conflicts in-America

The regional accents of English speakers show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This article provides an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation, usually deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect, of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers.