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Commemorating Juneteenth around Greater New Orleans and virtually
WGNO via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDay Celebration Fuhrmann Auditorium — 317 North Jefferson Ave., Covington Wednesday, June 19 Virtual...
Olympic legends: from Jesse Owens to Bob Beamon - Part 2
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 8 hours agoAFP continues its look back at the history of the Olympics to pick out some of the legends that have...
A white mob in Ohio denied land to hundreds of former slaves, a lawmaker wants to right that wrong
Florida Phoenix via Yahoo News· 5 days agoQuality Journalism for Critical Times During the height of summer in 1846, a mob of white Mercer...
Opinion: Juneteenth
Idaho State Journal· 3 days agoPresident Lincoln must’ve known that it would be some time before Union troops could enforce the Proclamation. The slave states hid the proclamation from...
Juneteenth celebrations continue in Richmond with freedom celebration at winery
CBS 6 Richmond· 9 hours agoThe holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
Today in History: July 5, Dolly the sheep marks cloning breakthrough
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 hours agoToday is Friday, July 5, the 187th day of 2024. On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of ...
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America | Opinion
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery ...
Stars Reflect on Juneteenth: ‘Celebrate the Freedom’
Extra TV· 5 days agoJuneteenth became a national holiday three years ago, but its origins date back to June 19, 1865. Now, it is a day to not only celebrate, but also to...
Juneteenth: What is it; what to know about the holiday that celebrates slavery’s end
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 7 days agoFor more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United...
