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American Canyon’s Juneteenth celebration this Sunday
Napa Valley Register· 28 minutes agoSunday’s free event will also be about celebration. Main Street Park will be buzzing with African American music of all varieties — from gospel to R&B — and the gathering will also serve to ...
Essay winners: Juneteenth lets us remember nation's past while striving for better future
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 59 minutes agoTexas was the first state to make it a holiday in 1980, motivating other states to do the same in...
Here’s where to celebrate Juneteenth around South Florida
Miami Herald via AOL· 4 hours agoIt’s almost time for the celebrations and sounds of Juneteenth, a national holiday commemorating...
'No right to an honest living': Juneteenth in Boston then and now - Boston Business Journal
The Business Journals· 3 hours agoJuneteenth marks the nation’s second Independence Day. On June 19, 1865, Union forces finally...
London doesn’t need an African Goddess, Sadiq Khan. Why not British abolitionists?
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoIf the statue of a slaver is to be replaced, perhaps it should not be with the deity of a slaving ...
Dengue Surge Grips Latin America
Foreign Policy Magazine· 28 minutes agoThe highlights this week: A dengue fever outbreak shows what Latin America learned from COVID-19, the BRICS+ leaders convene in Russia for the first time...
‘End Slavery in California Act’ clears key hurdle
ABC 10 Sacramento· 3 days agoAn effort to end forced labor for inmates is underway. It’s a key legislative priority of California’s first-in-the-nation Reparations Task Force, and...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTheir goal, in this view, was to create an industrial-capitalist state based on wage, not slave, labor and on par with liberal empires in Europe. Sinha...
‘Wide Awake’ Review: On the March for Lincoln
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days ago-Americans became Wide Awakes, with the Ohio lawyer John Mercer Langston (later a congressman representing Virginia) and the Bostonian Lewis Hayden, a...
Juneteenth events in the area
The Eagle-Tribune· 3 hours agoThe event is billed as “a dynamic event highlighting our shared connection through the African diaspora.” Through engaging vendors, historical re-enactments, and shared historical artifacts, ...
