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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoJune 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
50 Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
The Today Show via AOL· 17 hours agoA combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” the annual federal holiday recognizes the end of...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Exhibit on emancipation at Williams College powerful, necessary
Albany Times Union· 1 day agoThe anchor is the 1862 executive order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, which has...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 35 minutes agoOne of the most fateful documents of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency — and in all of American history — will go on public display this week at the legendary Illinoisan’s namesake museum in Springfield ...
Race relations task force in Burlington call its quits without funding or much support
The Journal Times· 10 hours agoA task force on improving race relations in Burlington has voted to disband after a three-year...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Toxic Gas Adds to a Long History of Pollution in Southwest Memphis
North Denver News· 15 hours agoFor many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern side of town ...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 4 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 4 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...