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Florida Emancipation Day again recognized in Gainesville at museum in Black community
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe city of Gainesville kicked off its month-long Journey to Juneteenth celebration on Saturday with...
‘Going to be missed’: Viewers, contributors of GBH’s ‘Basic Black’ mourn show being taken off air -...
The Boston Globe· 8 hours ago“We relied on ‘Basic Black’ for years to have our perspective,” said Michael Curry, chief executive...
Culpeper NAACP to host Juneteenth celebration
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star· 3 days agoThe Culpeper NAACP will hold a Juneteenth celebration at Yowell Meadow Park on June 15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The organization will celebrate the federal holiday, marking ...
100 objects that make Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt’s the sound linked to leather, and the smell of gasoline. It’s the sound of putting the pedal to the metal. You know that sound. It’s the sound of a...
'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe day is also called "Mayteenth." Juneteenth commemorates the day in Galveston, Texas in 1866 when...
About America’s Black Holocaust Museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHe regularly welcomed guests into his home to learn this history. The museum moved to its first official location in the Sultan Muhammad Islamic Center....
Call for artists: ‘Capturing the Light’ exhibit at Fremont Center for the Arts
Canon City Daily Record· 20 hours agoFremont Center for the Arts welcomes entries to its upcoming show “Capturing Light” art exhibit. All...
This Memorial Day, here’s who you should know is buried at the Lexington Cemetery
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn recognition of that day’s news, President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021....
Ron DeSantis Proves Freedom Means Something Else In Florida With Draconian DOT Bridge Lighting...
Jalopnik via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFlorida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis declared a so-called Freedom Summer for the state kicking...
How Don Quixote changed a Dallas public school classroom
Dallas Morning News· 5 hours agoAt the beginning of this school year, only four of my 26 fifth-graders could read on grade level,...
