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Pensacola Juneteenth celebrations include festivals, concerts and 'family reunion.'
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoJuneteenth is a true American holiday ‒ a day on which freedom and independence came to all Americans, giving fulfilment to the concepts of liberty and equality promised at ...
Zinn Education Project
The Raw Story· 13 hours agoThe main “Documents of Freedom” reading on slavery, titled “Slavery and the Constitution,” is essentially a defense of the founding fathers ...
Six-day Juneteenth celebration in Toledo
WTVG 13 Action News· 13 hours agoWe are two weeks out from Juneteenth, Freedom Day, marking our country’s second independence day to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United...
Juneteenth GVL gears up to host events honoring Black freedom
WYFF 4 Greenville· 2 hours agoOrganizers are gearing up to host the Juneteenth event in Greenville. Rueben Hays is the founder of...
How to celebrate Juneteenth in the Lehigh Valley
The Morning Call· 25 minutes agoCelebrate Juneteenth with this events in the Lehigh Valley and beyond.
Juneteenth: River Region has many ways to celebrate end of slavery
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 day agoRodney Wilkerson will be hosting and DJ Freaknasty will be on crowd control. Montgomery Advertiser...
When is Juneteenth observed in 2024? Here's when the US commemorates the end of slavery
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAlso known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day and Black Independence Day, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery
Here are 12 Juneteenth events around South Jersey
Courier Post via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoPresident Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, effectively ending slavery, but some enslavers ignored the order. Enslaved people...
Here’s what I tell teachers about how to teach young students about slavery
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFew issues are as difficult to deal with in the classroom as slavery in the US. Here, a professor...
Local bestsellers for the week ended June 2 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 26 minutes agoBased on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers...