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What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
Trump claims he actually ‘loves’ Milwaukee and attacks ‘Joe Bride’ in error-strewn Wisconsin...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThe president wrote: “Today, we honor the tireless work of abolitionists who made it their mission...
A journalist traces his family tree back to ancestor who served in Black regiment in Civil War -...
ABC 7 El Paso· 2 hours agoMy great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 4 hours agoAlso known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America's second Independence Day, Juneteenth...
With pardons in Maryland, 2.5 million Americans will have marijuana convictions cleared or forgiven
WFMJ Youngstown· 15 minutes agoPardons forgive people for their crimes. A pardon can restore civil liberties, such as voting,...
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 3 hours agoWhat is Juneteenth? On 19 June 1865 - months after the northern US states defeated the slave-owning South in the US Civil War - enslaved African-...
Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for?
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoJuneteenth is an official holiday first held to mark the close of slavery after the Civil War in Texas, but the George Floyd protests made it mainstream.
5 things white people need to hear on Juneteenth
theGrio via AOL· 10 minutes agoTo be clear, I’m not insinuating that Black people have been lying to y’all the other 364 days this year. But we know how y’all are. After experiencing...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoNot by a long shot. "You'd be surprised. There are many students who get to my class and they sort of never learned about the history of enslavement,...
"It doesn't take a big swing": Expert says "one group" ditching Trump over conviction — independents
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoReilly added he suspects the percentage of seemingly indifferent voters will decrease as more...
