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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 59 minutes 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...
30-year Cy-Fair ISD teacher fights board’s removal of science textbook chapters
Community Impact· 5 days agoAlicia Royer, who has been teaching science at Cypress Falls High School for 30 years, said she was...
Cy-Fair ISD textbook omissions, library policy being reviewed Monday
ABC13 Houston· 2 days agoBefore the last day of school on May 31, the board approved cutting half of its librarian positions...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe holiday’s roots trace back to June 19, 1865, when U.S. troops led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger...
Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFor the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant...
Opinion: Juneteenth: New Ways to Teach about Slavery, Black Perseverance and U.S. History
The 74 via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoWhenever I tell high school students in classes I visit that I appreciated learning about slavery as...
Cy-Fair ISD trustees vote to give themselves prior review of library materials | Houston Public...
Houston Public Media· 19 hours agoTrustees for Cy-Fair ISD, a month after voting to remove sciencetextbook chapters that touch on...
Cy-Fair ISD Trustees Uphold Widely-Criticized Move To Gut Science Chapters
Houston Press· 1 day agoOn Monday night, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD trustees backed their prior decision to remove over a dozen...
Juneteenth is a celebration of history many Americas tried to hide | Social views
The Patriot-News· 22 hours agoJuneteenth celebrations are sprouting up all over Pennsylvania just like in the rest of the nation....
Demolition of the Parkland classroom building where 17 died in 2018 shooting is set to begin
WWTI Watertown· 5 days agoPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A crew is scheduled Friday to begin tearing down the three-story classroom...