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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 4 days agoAlabama is one of the states giving their voters the chance to amend the 13th Amendment: the exemption from slavery or involuntary servitude unless your are convicted of a crime. Ironically, ...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWilbur Bell, 83, believes he is a living son of slavery in America. Family history has Bell’s...
Juneteenth festivals, events and other celebrations to mark the holiday in Charlotte
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJuneteenth celebrations in Charlotte are just around the corner, and you can celebrate at festivals...
Meek Mill joins Murphy to launch N.J. clemency overhaul on Juneteenth
NJ.com· 4 days agoSlavery is banned everywhere in America except the prison system. The 13th Amendment states,...
California’s Black legislators make case for reparations bills while launching statewide tour
NBC NEWS· 5 days agoSeveral members of California’s Legislative Black Caucus launched a statewide tour in San Diego...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
The history and significance of Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJuneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country's second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom.
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 4 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States
New York Times· 4 days agoThe writers, members of the New York University Prison Education Program Research Lab, are the authors of “Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison...
