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Oakland celebrates Juneteenth amid attacks on education about Black history
Courthouse News Service· 4 days agoThe Oakland Museum of California hosted a party Wednesday, including live musicians and cooks, in...
Explaining the Origins of Juneteenth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOn that day in 1865, Union Maj. ..., and more than two years after then-U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. According to The...
Why I Celebrate Juneteenth
The Chattanoogan· 5 days agoThroughout history slavery has existed. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued by executive order the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ...
From emancipation to remembrance: Bristol confronts its painful past
WCYB NBC 5· 4 days agoWednesday was June 19, also known as Juneteenth. It marks the day when word of the Emancipation ...
Imagining liberation, expanding ideas of freedom on Juneteenth
Hartford Courant· 7 days agoSince that first anniversary when enslaved Black people finally received news of the Emancipation ...
Community and history recognized at Juneteenth celebration in Grant Park: 'It does my heart good'
Tribune via AOL· 4 days agoJun. 19—When she was president of the African American club on Fairchild Air Force Base in the late 1990s, organizing the first of the area's Juneteenth celebrations, Peggie Troutt had a clear ...
Black history is American history. Juneteenth memorializes African American triumphs
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 days agoCraig previously served two terms in the Ohio House and seven years on Columbus City Council. On...
Reflecting on history of Juneteenth, celebrations in Southwest & Central Virginia
WDBJ 7 Roanoke· 5 days agoJune 19, also known as Juneteenth, is a day when freedom finally came in 1865 to enslaved African...
Celebrate Juneteenth in Southwest Virginia
WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke· 5 days agoJuneteenth, celebrated on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were informed of their freedom, over two years after the ...
Local historian shares tales of St. Helena’s freed people during and after the Civil War
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat was two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, during the Civil War....
