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USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoToday marks the third year Juneteenth is a federal holiday. Known as “Second Independence Day,” Juneteenth marks the day — June 19, 1865 — enslaved people in Galveston, < ...
The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth - WBBJ TV
WBBJ TV· 5 days agoIt was the day when a Union officer reached Galveston, Texas and announced their liberation. It...
On this day in history, June 19, 1865, the end of slavery is proclaimed in Texas
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, yet freedom truly arrived for many enslaved people...
Channel 2 Action News gets a tour of museum at the place where Juneteenth started
WSB-TV 2 Atlanta· 5 days agoWednesday marks exactly 159 years since the last enslaved people in the United States learned they...
Galveston's only Juneteenth art gallery inspires next generation of changemakers
ABC13 Houston· 5 days agoOn the same corner where Juneteenth was born nearly 160 years ago, a movement is taking place to...
Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created and how should it be celebrated? |...
ABC 6 Providence· 6 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
17-year-old Louisiana man drowns while swimming at Galveston beach, patrol says
ABC13 Houston· 3 days agoAuthorities said at 2:53 p.m., beach patrol was called to the scene regarding a swimmer in distress...
Houston's Susan Farb Morris dead after Galveston balcony collapse
KRIV via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHOUSTON - A well-known Houston PR leader tragically died after a balcony collapsed in Galveston on...
The beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth
theGrio via AOL· 5 days agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after...
Some say Juneteenth is ‘a day just as important as the Fourth of July’
WFLA Tampa Bay· 5 days agoCelebrating African-American freedom, Juneteenth marks when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were...
