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Carlee Bronkema at WAND:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - President Joe Biden announced his plans to formally designate the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a national monument using his authority through the Antiquities Act.  The monument will be located at the uncovered site of the race riot. This announcement comes after several actions by community members and organizations to push for national recognition of the site. 

[...] The monument will have national impacts as well, as it is the first time the site of a lynching has been memorialized, according to Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13). She says it's important that we recognize the bad parts of our history. 

[...] During the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, a mob of white residents attacked Springfield’s Black community, burning down homes and businesses and attacking hundreds of residents. Following the riot, the NAACP was formed. During an excavation as part of the Springfield Rail Improvements project, foundations and artifacts from homes destroyed during the riot were uncovered. An agreement with community members was reached in 2018 to excavate the remains and designate the uncovered site a memorial. Budzinski was the lead of the bipartisan 1908 Race Riot National Monument Act with Congressman Darin LaHood. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth lead companion legislation in the U.S. Senate. In December of 2023, Budzinski sent a letter to President Biden asking him to use his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the site as a national monument. 

The Biden Administration has made the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois a national monument, 116 years after the anti-Black race riot occurred.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1968

In Paris, a spokesman for the North Vietnamese negotiating delegation, Nguyen Thanh Le, described the American evacuation of the Khe Sanh base as the “gravest tactical and strategic defeat” for the United States in the Vietnam war. 

The Czechoslovak Government and Communist party denounced an appeal published in Prague newspapers that called for the people to take direct action to remove men of the discredited old regime from power. 

Sirhan B. Sirhan, accused assassin of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, made his second heavily guarded appearance in an improvised courtroom in the Los Angeles County jail chapel. He obtained a second three-week continuance of his arraignment proceeding, to allow more time for study of records and psychiatric examinations. 

In the gun control battle on Capitol Hill, the outlines of a possible compromise began to emerge, as segments of the gun lobby

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, accused Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of either trying to mislead the public or having “a woeful lack of knowledge” of F.B.I. methods. 

Youth delegates to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 59th annual convention in Atlantic City staged a walkout after their request to form an autonomous and more militant organization was denied.

Al Jazeera:

The NAACP, one of the largest Black civil rights organisations in the United States, has urged Joe Biden to “indefinitely” suspend weapon transfers to Israel in a sign of growing discontent with the US president’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza. In a statement on Thursday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said the group has a “responsibility to speak out in the face of injustice and work to hold our elected officials accountable for the promises they’ve made”. “The Middle East conflict will only be resolved when the US government and international community take action, including limiting access to weapons used against civilians,” Johnson said. “The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the red line and indefinitely end the shipment of weapons and artillery to the state of Israel and other states that supply weapons to Hamas”, the Palestinian group that governs Gaza.

[...] But despite growing anger over Israel’s offensive – including recent deadly assaults on Rafah and on a United Nations school-turned-shelter in central Gaza – the US president has maintained staunch support for the top ally.