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What is Juneteenth? The beginner's guide to celebrating the federal holiday
WKYC Cleveland· 10 hours agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Juneteenth is a celebration of history many Americas tried to hide | Social views
The Patriot-News· 12 hours agoJuneteenth celebrations are sprouting up all over Pennsylvania just like in the rest of the nation....
New book shows how Latino voters are dismantling America’s Black-white racial order | Opinion
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoAmerica’s whole racial discourse over 250 years of history, its national story, has to date been...
'The heart of Austin beats here': Juneteenth, visit city's only intact slave quarters
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 19 hours ago"The heart of Austin beats here, at one of the few sites left from the city's early period. Who we...
From 2007: A Q&A with Hesburgh about Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoI think a great portion of his dream -- the difference between what America was like before his...
Opinion: Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 4 days agoIn Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into...
Q&A: Retired Army colonel Dwayne Wagner talks about his Juneteenth poem for Military Review
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoTexas slaves cried to...ignored Emancipation. More pain, more blood, more tears. Field-slave Wagoner...
Local historian shares tales of St. Helena’s freed people during and after the Civil War
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoIt’s worth noting that the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t solve every problem freed slaves would...
Juneteenth: Northern Light Health professionals celebrate, stress importance of sharing Black...
WCSH 6 Portland· 5 hours agoAhead of the holiday, on Tuesday, Northern Light Health's Vice...with her Northern Light Health...
'Black Fourth of July': Boynton celebrates Juneteenth
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"This is part of our culture and I wanted to bring a piece of it to our people," McGhee said....