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What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 13 hours agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became the newest US federal holiday in 2021, though its storied history has held...
Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
Juneteenth Has Gone Mainstream. Should Everyone Be Celebrating?
Capital B via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoThis story was originally published in 2022 and has been updated. Juneteenth has been celebrated for...
Why This Word Used To Describe Systemic Racism Is So Damn Triggering
HuffPost· 2 hours agoA recentstudy from Pew Research Center, which found that “most Black Americans believe U.S....
GOP candidate tells Black Americans to leave US in Juneteenth Message
Newsweek· 7 hours agoA Republican candidate for Missouri secretary of state has told Black Americans who do like the...
Why Black Americans are less likely to end up with debt relief
Yahoo News via AOL· 2 days agoBlack Americans are less than half as likely as white Americans to have their debts reorganized or...
At Juneteenth summit, White House spells out Biden’s record on housing, economy and education
WHYY· 2 hours agoThe White House held a Juneteenth event earlier this month, offering WHYY News the opportunity to...
Opinion | Why Juneteenth gives me hope in 2024
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoAlthough it was only designated a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth National Independence Day has of course been celebrated in Black American...
5 things white people need to hear on Juneteenth
theGrio via AOL· 8 hours agoWhen I learned that Juneteenth was a day to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, I could only imagine the words that came tumbling out...