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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 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...
How George Floyd’s Death Exposed a Fake Syndrome: ‘Excited Delirium’
Scientific American· 21 hours agoOn May 25, 2020, George Floyd was arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy...
Americans today are divided, not united, by public tragedies
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 days agoGeorge Floyd's murder: A public tragedy Take the story of George Floyd, killed in 2020 by...
Explainer-What is Juneteenth and how are people marking the day?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a bill by President Joe Biden....
Did Trump oversee the biggest-ever one-year rise in murders?
Politifact· 5 days agoPresident Joe Biden tore into his expected 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, after Trump...
Tate: Swapping cops with social workers dangerous idea
Boston Herald· 2 days agoYou call 9-11, but all that’s available are unarmed social workers. Cambridge is creating a social...
Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement...
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThat’s just a few shy of the total killings in 1995, when the city earned the nickname...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoDonald Williams, who was a vital witness in the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer three years ...
The Origins of Juneteenth and Why It Falls on June 19th
Time via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThough it’s been celebrated by Black Americans as early as in the mid-late 1800s, Juneteenth is a...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 2 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
