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What does the name 'Juneteenth' mean? When is Juneteenth? All about the federal holiday
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 5 minutes agoThe day commemorates the day the slaves liberated by the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation —...
Southern Baptist Convention disdains female ministers, but merit should eclipse misogyny
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoFrom the Civil War to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Movement, the arc of history has always...
This wealthy white enclave was once home to newly freed Black Americans
Mother Jones· 6 hours ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Evidence of Iran and UAE drones used in Sudan war
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoLike most of the city, the building had fallen into the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the civil war</ ...
Celebrate Juneteenth with these 8 events in Bucks County area
Bucks County Courier Times via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free came more than two years after...
Finally, a specific accounting of land stolen from the formerly enslaved
Mother Jones· 6 hours ago40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly...
Number of people fleeing violence hits new peak
BBC via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoMore than nine million people have left their homes in Sudan during the civil war [Reuters] A record-breaking 120 million people have ...
Black History Collective of Henderson County to put on Juneteenth events
Times-News via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoJuneteenth, observed every year on June 19, commemorates the emancipation of African Americans in...
Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved people were stripped of land
NPR· 4 hours agoJournalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President Lincoln's death, the land was taken back.
Juneteenth events begin this weekend
Gannett via AOL· 10 hours agoOn June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the Civil War was over and slavery abolished, more than two ...