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Juneteenth 2024: Outdoor events, 5K, Black business showcase honor holiday in Binghamton
Press Connects | Press & Sun-Bulletin via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoGen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas...Proclamation. In 2021, Juneteenth was signed as a federal holiday, the first approved holiday since Martin< ...
Juneteenth: What it is and how to celebrate it
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoYour kids will have a day off from school and, if you work, you may be off from work. This will leave you time to celebrate. Here’s a...On June 17,2021...
Juneteenth 2024 in Fort Myers: Recognizing "a great milestone"
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDay. The holiday traces its origin to Galveston, Texas where Union soldiers arrived on June 19, 1865...
Juneteenth in Naples: a great day to "understand and celebrate"
Naples Daily News· 5 days agoPresident Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Act in 2021, making Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther ...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 1 hour agoMartin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Kirk has been teasing that he will release “the truth” about the Civil Rights icon on his birthday ...
The Story Behind 'Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown'
Time Magazine· 2 hours agoJonestown, the experimental settlement that existed for four years in Guyana, South America,...
The Editorial Board: Juneteenth is a day of celebration and remembrance
The Buffalo News· 2 days agoPeople are catching on to the importance of Juneteenth. Buffalonians could give a master class on...
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
WLRN Miami· 5 days agoThe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence....
55 empowering Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
The Today Show via AOL· 7 days agoThe annual holiday is observed in recognition of June 19, 1865, the historic day in which Major...
King and queen of the Netherlands pay tribute to MLK during visit to Atlanta
San Francisco Chronicle· 7 days agoThe king and queen of the Netherlands began a four-day tour of the U.S. on Monday in Atlanta, where...