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'Strength and resilience': Carver Museum launches Juneteenth exhibit ahead of holiday
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNow, Whitaker hopes to change that, by celebrating and preserving Black history. Juneteenth, short...
Why I Celebrate Juneteenth - And Response (2)
The Chattanoogan· 6 days agoThroughout history slavery has existed. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued by executive order the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ...
Coshocton's Juneteenth celebration called 'beautiful testament to the power of community'
The Coshocton Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJuneteenth is a state and national holiday commemorating the day the last enslaved people received...
Why I Celebrate Juneteenth - And Response
The Chattanoogan· 6 days agoThroughout history slavery has existed. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued by executive order the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 days agoOn CNN, Wilbur Bell explores his family’s history with slavery Hours after the CNN story first aired...
Opinion: Juneteenth
Idaho State Journal· 4 days agoOn “Juneteenth,” I heard the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, read over the radio, and it was inspiring to hear the words of the document...
Museums, libraries and more: What's open and closed on Juneteenth in Chicago?
NBC Chicago· 6 days agoJuneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed —...
The beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth
theGrio via AOL· 6 days agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after...
Celebrating Juneteenth isn't rejecting the Fourth of July. It honors freedom for all.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 7 days agoYet, when I asked some of my white family members and friends what they were doing for...
Reflecting on history of Juneteenth, celebrations in Southwest & Central Virginia
WDBJ 7 Roanoke· 6 days agoJune 19, also known as Juneteenth, is a day when freedom finally came in 1865 to enslaved African...
