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Essay winners: Juneteenth lets us remember nation's past while striving for better future
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoTexas was the first state to make it a holiday in 1980, motivating other states to do the same in...
American Canyon’s Juneteenth celebration this Sunday
Napa Valley Register· 2 hours 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 —...
Here’s where to celebrate Juneteenth around South Florida
Miami Herald via AOL· 5 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· 5 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 ...
‘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...
Seven new ice cream flavours and the Pope: Italy prepares to host G7
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt was denounced by their unions as having “inhuman” conditions, resembling those of ancient slave...
Dengue Surge Grips Latin America
Foreign Policy Magazine· 2 hours 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...
