LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 14: A protester sporting an American flag holds up his palms as police clear a road after an “illegal meeting” was declared, after a day of principally peaceable protests, on June 14.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 14: A protester sporting an American flag holds up his palms as police clear a road after an “illegal meeting” was declared, after a day of principally peaceable protests, on June 14.
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Frank Langfitt has coated the world. Now he studies for NPR as a roving correspondent, specializing in tales that assist us perceive a altering America.
Just lately, he coated each the army parade that introduced tanks and armored personnel carriers rolling by means of the nation’s capital, in addition to the No Kings protests the place folks in dozens of cities throughout the nation rallied in opposition to politicization of the armed forces by somebody they known as a would-be autocrat.
Many have dubbed the day as a split-screen second – and for Frank, going to 2 occasions on the identical day gave him the sense of America with a lens he had typically examined different nations prior to now.
There are occasions that turn into a Rorschach check that brings out America’s political and cultural divisions in daring aid. You would take a look at that day for example of a divided America — a second the place our variations have been positioned in fairly stark aid. However maybe by being in each locations on the identical day you see one thing totally different.
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