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New Book Traces the Religious Right's Decades-Long Campaign to End Roe
Rolling Stone· 11 hours agoWade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise — almost...
Are banks, post offices, UPS and FedEx open on Juneteenth 2024 in NH? Here's what to know
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 7 days agoEven though Juneteenth is not a state holiday yet in New Hampshire, the holiday is still observed at...
Senator Markey champions Juneteenth federal holiday and criticizes Supreme Court's conservative...
GBH News· 7 days agoMassachusetts Senator Ed Markey was one of the lead sponsors of the bill that established Juneteenth...
Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created and how should it be celebrated?
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 7 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 6 days agoIn the lead-up to 19 June 2021, both chambers of the US Congress moved swiftly to pass the bill and - with the signature of President Biden, it became...
Q&A: Retired Army colonel Dwayne Wagner talks about his Juneteenth poem for Military Review
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFor those looking to understand why Juneteenth is an important holiday, a poem might be able to...
New Houston mural honors Texas' 'Grandmother of Juneteenth'
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoMidtown's newest public artwork piece pays homage to Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan activist who...
A.I. Trade Rolls Over to Energy; Consumer Discretionary in Focus
Zacks via Yahoo Finance· 7 hours agoAnd what’s been fed into PCE data has a decidedly downward bias these days. Here’s something else...
‘People have worked so hard.’ Woman who helped make Juneteenth a national holiday visits New Jersey
News 12 New Jersey· 6 days agoIt’s been three years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday. It commemorates the day enslaved Blacks in Galveston, Texas learned about their freedom. Ahead of the celebration ...
Here is how Juneteenth came to be and why it's so important
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSupport for making Juneteenth a federal holiday had gained momentum after the widespread outrage...