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What is Juneteenth? The beginner's guide to celebrating the federal holiday
WKYC Cleveland· 9 hours agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after...
Juneteenth is a time for assessment
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoEliza Anderson, Deseret News On Jan. 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed by President Abraham Lincoln, became effective. The purpose...
19 Juneteenth Facts To Celebrate Black Independence Day
Blavity via Yahoo News· 7 days agoJuneteenth, celebrated on June nineteenth, is coming up and it is time for sorrowful reflection but...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
From 2007: A Q&A with Hesburgh about Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement
Gannett via AOL· 4 hours agoKing did? You see, great leaders are not common or numerous in any country. Let's just look at the...
36 years, $38 million and 4 parts: Why Kevin Costner believes in 'Horizon'
TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 hours ago"I wasn't expecting that," Costner told Savannah of the emotional moment on TODAY. Talking to ...
Juneteenth: Black Congress members from Ohio discuss progress and problems since holiday’s...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 8 hours agoIt took more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation for...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
Editorial: The history, and hypocrisy, of the upside-down American flag
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAn upside-down U.S. flag outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s home is the latest...
Celebrating late jazz icon Duke Ellington on his 125th birthday
WBUR Boston· 13 hours agoEllington grew up in Washington, D.C. A confident kid known then as Edward Ellington, he once told...