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Virginia NAACP sues Shenandoah school board after district restored Confederate names
Virginia Mercury via Yahoo News· 7 days agoVirginia NAACP on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Shenandoah County School Board for what it...
Our View: A celebration of freedom -- for all
The Sun Chronicle· 1 day agoAt the stroke of midnight, prayers were answered as all enslaved people in Confederate states were declared legally free. Union soldiers, many of whom were Black, marched ...
How Juneteenth became a family holiday for us
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoSometimes change is hard. Just because troops arrived didn’t mean that slaves were actually free. Henry Louis Gates Jr., wrote that “even in Galveston...
Juneteenth means more than celebrations in Jackson. It's a time of reflection, commemoration
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoLee surrendered. Though originally celebrated in Texas, the holiday spread around the United States...
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office investigating a shooting in Confederate Point
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 4 days agoThe Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting in the Confederate Point area.
The Juneteenth flag is flying over Milwaukee right now. What is it, and what does it represent?
Gannett via AOL· 13 hours agoThis was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation....
Biden administration report admits the harm of Columbia, Snake dams on Indigenous people
The Olympian via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoThe Columbia Basin agreement was announced in December between the U.S. government, the states of...
Virginia NAACP sues school board for reinstating confederate names
theGrio via AOL· 7 days agoThe Virginia NAACP sued a county school board Tuesday over its reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, accusing it of embracing segregationist values and ...
Letters | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 21 hours agoThe actual effect was the changing of the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the Confederate states from enslaved to...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 1 day agoWhite Lies Matter is a group that claimed responsibility for the disappearance of a Confederate monument in Selma, Ala., that was dedicated to Confederate
