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Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created and how should it be celebrated?
FOX 23 News Albany· 7 hours agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Juneteenth 2024: Who is working? What is open?
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoProclamation declared in 1863 that “all persons held as slaves” in states that were part of the Confederacy “are, and henceforward shall be free.”...
Local historian shares tales of St. Helena’s freed people during and after the Civil War
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThat was two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, during the Civil War....
Opinion: 6 Books that Explain the History and Meaning of Juneteenth
The 74 via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago‘On Juneteenth’ Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a moving...
9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth
MediaFeed via AOL· 2 hours agoAt the time, the Civil War was raging. On June 19, 1865, 2½½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued and two months after ...
Kevin Lindsey on Juneteenth and the importance of remembering our stories
MPR News· 6 hours agoIt marks the date on June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black Americans in Texas finally learned of their...
36 years, $38 million and 4 parts: Why Kevin Costner believes in 'Horizon'
Today· 9 hours agoIf watching "Horizon: An American Saga" makes you flinch at times, then Kevin Costner has done his...
VP Kamala Harris to deliver remarks ahead of Juneteenth celebration
WJXT Jacksonville· 2 hours agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after...
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Premiere Hits 7.8 Million Viewers, Max’s Biggest Single-Day Audience...
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoHBO's "Game of Thrones" spin-off series kicked off the civil war between Queen Rhaenyra's Team Black...
Juneteenth is about more than the end of slavery
Olean Times Herald· 4 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates the arrival of Union Army Major Gen. Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas, with General Order No. 3 telling the people of the...
