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Juneteenth is a celebration of history many Americas tried to hide | Social views
The Patriot-News· 5 days agoJuneteenth celebrations are sprouting up all over Pennsylvania just like in the rest of the nation....
Metro-east civil rights leaders discuss the importance of the Juneteenth holiday
Belleville News-Democrat· 4 days agoLocal civil rights leaders say it’s important for everyone to commemorate Juneteenth, fully acknowledge the history it represents and work to continue pushing for equity for ...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOthers stayed to find paying work...Black Fourth of July. It is the American celebration of freedom from slavery.
Andrew Bacevich, Tom Dispatch
The Raw Story· 12 hours agoRecall that in the eighteenth century, it was a slaveholding planter from Virginia who secured American independence. In the middle third of the twentieth ...
What is Juneteenth? What do I say? What do I do? A starter guide to the federal holiday
Tri-City Herald· 5 days agoThose who celebrate Juneteenth have different traditions for marking the holiday, and it’s important to know what some of them are.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott educates KU basketball team about Juneteenth
Wichita Eagle via AOL· 3 days ago“That’s why it was the bloodiest war in American history.” Speaking afterward, he added that the...
Defend Liberalism? Let’s Fight for Democracy First
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHow can that be? I suspend my caustic take on liberalism when it comes to the momentous achievements of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964...
Don’t Be Fooled By Liberalism’s Modesty
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLiberalism must pull democracy back from the...modesty—it does not purport to have the keys to the iron laws of history—and its long-distance focus on...
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America | Opinion
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God...ago, so still it must be said, ‘The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’ ” The ...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoMostly, they’ve complained that it makes America look bad—which it does, but only because it makes America look like America. Senate ...
