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Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created and how should it be celebrated? |...
ABC 6 Providence· 7 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Juneteenth is now just another holiday – you can tell by the merch
Oklahoma Voice via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAn online search for Juneteenth products brings up everything from T-shirts to temporary tattoos,...
Granderson: Overcoming America’s past is everyone’s responsibility
Los Angeles Times· 3 hours agoIt’s been nearly 10 years since my cousin Ingrid Scott-Weekley passed away from cancer. Recognizing ...
Florida state offices closed extra day for Fourth of July. See state, federal holidays
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoYes, July 4, also called Independence Day, is one of 11 federal holidays: New Year’s Day - Jan. 1 Martin Luther King’s Birthday...Birthday - third Monday in February Memorial ...
Juneteenth is a Sacred American Holiday
Skanner· 7 days agoJuneteenth, as the day was known, was special not just for Black Texans, but for many Americans with ties to the southern state that had received the news of emancipation ...
Juneteenth Explained: What Is the Holiday, Why Was It Created and How Should It Be Celebrated?
Skanner· 7 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston ...
This 97-Year-Old Activist Helped Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Biography via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOpal Lee earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2022 for her part in creating the Juneteenth...
History behind Juneteenth, how and why it became a federal holiday
KOAA5· 6 days agoJuneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States and stems from an event in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops ...
Michigan marks its 1st Juneteenth as an official state holiday
Michigan Advance via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWednesday will not be the first observance of Juneteenth in Michigan, but it will be the first time...
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 6 days agoWhy is it called Juneteenth? The word was created by joining the words "June" and "nineteenth" together. Is Juneteenth a federal holiday