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    • Juneteenth celebrations held across NYC

      WNYW via Yahoo News· 10 hours ago

      Juneteenth celebrations were held across New York City on Wednesday, celebrating black history and marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free.

    • How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day

      How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day

      HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 24 hours ago

      June 19, 1865, more than two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, which all but ended the Civil...