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Opal Lee gets keys to her new Texas home 85 years after a racist mob drove her family from that lot...
Texarkana Gazette· 13 hours agoThe ceremony to welcome Lee into the newly completed home comes just days before the nation...
Juneteenth celebrated in Las Vegas: ‘This is an American holiday’
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 14 hours agoWhile Las Vegans have been celebrating the effective end of slavery in the United States for more...
Columbia city offices closed Wednesday in observance of Juneteenth
KOMU Columbia· 2 hours agoCity of Columbia offices will be closed Wednesday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth, which honors the end of slavery in the United States. Residential curbside trash will ...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 6 hours agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
Juneteenth Block Party brings dancing, food and music to Perry Square in Erie
Gannett via AOL· 18 hours ago"Juneteenth is the celebration of freedom from slavery," Erie entrepreneur, educator and Erie...
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBorn into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America....
American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited,...
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days agoWhile white women certainly interacted with enslaved people in household management and day-to-day tasks, historians once argued that they weren’t active owners and had very limited involvement ...
Juneteenth celebrations all around Hudson County this week
NJ.com· 4 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The historical event took place on...
2024 Juneteenth celebrations in the Charlotte area
WSOC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJuneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery -- June 19 was the day that the last slaves in the U.S. were made aware of their...
Our opinion: Use Juneteenth as an opportunity to learn more about Black culture, history
telegraphherald.com· 11 hours agoThis weekend in Dubuque and around the country, communities will celebrate Juneteenth, marking 159 years since the end of slavery in the U.S. It’s an important event to commemorate ...