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'Oh, Mary!'s Cole Escola is bringing 'the gay shadows' to Broadway
Out via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoWith Oh, Mary! becoming a surprise sensation, writer and star Cole Escola prepares to take their...
Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
NPR· 6 days agoThe troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln< ...
Juneteenth: Black Congress members from Ohio discuss progress and problems since holiday’s...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 6 days agoIt took more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation for...
Casting the commanders: Who could play Biden and Trump in future movies?
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPresident Abraham Lincoln, required Daniel Day-Lewis, the leading star, to spend countless hours...
How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion
New York Times· 14 hours agoRichard Hatch was searching the card catalog of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, hunting for...
Alliance embraces spirit of Juneteenth
The Alliance Review via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoThe news arrived two years after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves at the end of the American Civil War. On what became known as...
Galveston's only Juneteenth art gallery inspires next generation of changemakers
ABC13 Houston· 5 days agoOn the same corner where Juneteenth was born nearly 160 years ago, a movement is taking place to...
Historian highlights Juneteenth’s ties to Colorado history that are often overlooked
Summit Daily News· 5 days agoPresident Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a promise to free all enslaved African...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIts origins date back to June 19, 1865, when the last group of people enslaved in the southern U.S....
Juneteenth Explained: What Is the Holiday, Why Was It Created and How Should It Be Celebrated?
Skanner· 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 President Abraham