Search results
‘Makes my heart smile’: Abilene Juneteenth celebrators speak on importance of day abolishing slavery
KTAB Abilene via Yahoo News· 3 days agoABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Stevenson Park in northeast Abilene was packed with revelers for two...
Popular theory claiming Easter Island’s population collapsed due to ‘ecocide’ is disproved
The Independent via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoUltimately, it was those sheep which destroyed Easter Island’s surviving environment - and it was...
Why I Celebrate Juneteenth - And Response (2)
The Chattanoogan· 4 days agoThroughout history slavery has existed. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued by executive order the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, to become effective ...
Blow: Juneteenth marked end to slavery; freedom’s taken longer | HeraldNet.com
Everett Herald· 4 days agoTo start, there is some debate over whether most of the estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas at the time...
Bill Kenny of Norwich: Recognizing the end of slavery in the U.S. at Juneteenth event
The Bulletin via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJuneteenth combines "June" and "nineteenth," commemorating the order issued by the Union Army's Major General Gordon Granger, on the morning of June 19...
Juneteenth draws 400 to 500 downtown - The Republic News
The Republic News· 3 hours agoFor Naomi Jean-Louis, Fourth Street was an avenue of togetherness Saturday afternoon in downtown Columbus. Right amid food vendors with steaks on the grill and smoked sausage, what she found ...
Phoenix neighborhood rocked again by vandalism after Juneteenth swastika spray-painting
The Arizona Republic· 5 hours agoFollowing racist vandalism on Wednesday, which coincided with Juneteenth, Phoenix police were...
Memory of Round Rock shooting lingers at Georgetown Juneteenth celebration
KXAN via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoOrganizers of a Juneteenth celebration in Georgetown said the memory of a shooting that took place...
Rosendale, Zinke vote to restore Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery
Bozeman Daily Chronicle· 49 minutes agoThe last thing on the U.S. House agenda before lawmakers left town June 15 for a week-long district work period, aka recess, was a three-day amendment slog ending in the passage of the National ...
Ulster County launches website "bearing witness" to county's history with slavery
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 4 days agoFor two years, the Ulster County Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been sifting through the county archives to identify anything related to enslaved people or slavery
