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Revelers reflect on freedom, friendship at Juneteenth celebration in Franklin Park - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoJuneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved ...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBut Sinha argues that Harper and her Black suffragist successors, like Ida B. Wells and Mary ...Party used the power of the federal government to...
Their View: Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
Times Leader· 5 days agoIn Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District of Texas, as was already the case elsewhere in ...
Democrats Must Change Their Whole Approach Toward White People
The Nation· 12 hours agoDemocrats need to realize that if Donald Trump’s felony conviction won’t weaken his support among...
The new evidence that makes the case for reparations undeniable
Mother Jones· 4 days ago“That big yellow bulldozer pulled up in front of our house on a Friday,” remembers Lawrence...
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
San Francisco Chronicle· 7 hours ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
Mob chased Randolph Freedpeople away with bayonet, threats. Descendants deserve Ohio land.
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis is our opportunity to continue the work started by our Founding Fathers. We can recognize this...
Live music, strawberries and cars: 5 things to do in Newport County this weekend
The Newport Daily News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJuneteenth celebration Rhode Island Slave History Medallions (RISHM) invites the public to...
Where to celebrate Juneteenth in San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day agoGen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston and announced the last enslaved black people in Texas were free by executive decree. In 1980, Texas became the...
Community celebrates Juneteenth in Ashtabula
Star Beacon, Ashtabula, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJun. 15—ASHTABULA — A celebration of freedom took place on Saturday afternoon at Lance Corp. Kevin Cornelius Park as many people came together to celebrate Juneteenth. The national holiday to ...
