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Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States
New York Times· 14 hours agoMany people do not realize that Emancipation did not legally end slavery in the United States, ...
What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 13 hours agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United< ...
Why Juneteenth didn’t actually end slavery in Texas
Washington Post· 13 hours agoIn 1903, a Black man walked into an office in a small town in Texas, seeking any news about whether slavery had ended ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 12 hours agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
OneUnited Bank CEO: Ending slavery is the best economic decision America ever made
Fortune via AOL· 12 hours agoThe decision to end slavery ultimately had the profound impact of making America
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoThe proclamation came a day before Miami-Dade offices will close for the county’s fourth annual...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoNot by a long shot. "You'd be surprised. There are many students who get to my class and they sort of never learned about the history of
Equal Justice Initiative dedicates monument to slavery survivors at Montgomery memorial park
Arkansas Advocate via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoPeople who visit the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, will not only face the...
'I think the struggle to overturn that system was worth it'; Juneteenth honors end of slavery,...
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 24 hours agoJuneteenth has only been a federal holiday since 2021, following a decades-long movement to recognize the end of slavery< ...
