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Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
Explaining the Origins of Juneteenth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoThe order was not followed by former slave owners, and in some cases freed people were forced back into work. June 19, 1866, was the first celebration of...
Will mail run today? Is post office open on Juneteenth (June 19, 2024)?
Birmingham News· 12 hours agoJuneteenth – a celebration of one of the final acts of emancipation for slaves in the U.S. – is the...
The Juneteenth National Holiday is a Time to Remember
Native News Online via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoPresident Joe Biden signed the legislation into law three years ago making Juneteenth a national...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 10 hours ago"What, to the American slave, is your fourth of July," Douglass said. "I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the...
5 things white people need to hear on Juneteenth
theGrio via AOL· 8 hours agoLook, I’m not going to bring up the three-fifths clause or the fugitive slave clause. I’m talking about the other parts. But, if we were going to build a...
Florida Republicans terrorized a teacher because of a Black Lives Matter flag. She hit back and won
Salon via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoYears before, Donofrio had helped her students start a group called EVAC Movement. Once invited to...
The beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth
Politico via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after ...
The Switch Up — The living legacy of Juneteenth
The Hill via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoFor more than 400 years, 15 million Africans were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, according to data from the United Nations. By 1860, when...
Juneteenth 2024: What’s open, closed today? Banks, mail, post office, more
The Post-Standard· 14 hours agoWhat is Juneteenth? Juneteenth marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought...