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Celebrating Juneteenth And A Conversation With WVPB’s First Eastern Panhandle Reporter, This West...
West Virginia Public Broadcasting· 10 hours agoOn this West Virginia Morning, Wednesday was the federal holiday Juneteenth, which celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.
Meet Opal Lee, the 'grandmother of the movement' to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhen President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of...
Juneteenth is now just another holiday – you can tell by the merch
Oklahoma Voice via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAn online search for Juneteenth products brings up everything from T-shirts to temporary tattoos,...
Sen. Perkins Kwoka tried to make Juneteenth a New Hampshire holiday; House said no.
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRebecca Perkins Kwoka, D-Portsmouth, introduced Senate Bill 481 to instead establish June 19, ...
What's Juneteenth and what's open, closed? Here's what Savannah residents need to know
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFor 2024, it happens to be on a Wednesday. Stranger things in Georgia: Videodrome in Atlanta is one...
History behind Juneteenth, how and why it became a federal holiday
KOAA5· 2 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 ...
Senator Markey champions Juneteenth federal holiday and criticizes Supreme Court's conservative...
GBH News· 3 days agoMassachusetts Senator Ed Markey was one of the lead sponsors of the bill that established Juneteenth...
What is Juneteenth? Here's what to know about the holiday and why it's celebrated
NBC Chicago· 4 days agoThe Juneteenth holiday is set to take place this week, marking its fourth year as a federal holiday in the U.S., but the celebrations ...
Juneteenth advances as state holiday despite enduring opposition
Axios· 3 days agoJuneteenth, the once-obscure day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, has...
NYC Juneteenth 2024: What’s open and closed, things to do
FOX 5 New York· 3 days agoFOX 5 NY's Christal Young has more on the federal holiday. NEW YORK - June nineteenth is Juneteenth,...