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    • What is Juneteenth?

      Branson Tri-Lakes News· 1 day ago

      The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which was signed into law in 2021, made Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, celebrates the day in 1865 when Union ...

    • Freedom celebrated at Roanoke Juneteenth event

      Roanoke Times· 2 hours ago

      Juneteenth recognizes the date in June 159 years ago that Union troops notified the westernmost Confederate state of Texas that the Civil War had ended and the United States had abolished slavery ...

    • Juneteenth brings crowd to Broadway Square

      The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky. via Yahoo News· 2 hours ago

      IMG_5774.jpg Bernice Henry, co-founder of the C.B Nuckolls Community Center and Black History Museum asks the crowd to raise their hand if they’ve heard of Juneteenth. President Abraham Lincoln ...