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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

If you've ever been to the U.S. Capitol, you'll remember its collection of

100 statues, two from each state of the Union. Some, like Helen Keller and Thomas Edison,

are known to us all. Others are less famous nationally. North Carolina currently honors Charles

Brantley Aycock and Zebulon Baird Vance. However, the former was one of

the masterminds of an 1898 race riot in which a local government composed of black Americans

was overthrown and replaced by white officials. In his place, a life-sized statue of Billy Graham

will be installed sometime next year.

Reverend Graham is one of his home state's most beloved figures, with two state highways named

to honor him. One of Charlotte's biggest tourist attractions is the library documenting his life

and ministry, and its grounds that include his gravesite and restored childhood home.

The statue will feature Reverend Graham as he looked in the 1960s, preaching and holding a Bible in one

hand. His son Franklin Graham said, My father would be very pleased that people thought of him in this

way, but he would want people to give God the glory and not himself.

Let's consider the replacement of A.cock's statue with that of Billy Graham as a parable for our day.

Today is the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which was passed into law in August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon

B. Johnson.

It prohibits discriminatory voting practices, enforces the voting rights of the 14th and 15th

amendments, gives racial minorities the right to vote across the country, outlaws literacy

tests, and bars state and local governments from imposing

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