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Juneteenth is Wednesday but N.J.’s state holiday is Friday. Here’s why.
NJ.com· 2 days agoNew Jersey is celebrating Juneteenth for the third time this year, but once again, it will differ...
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...
NAACP sues after Virginia school board restores Confederate names on schools
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA Virginia county school board is now facing a federal lawsuit after it voted last month to...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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....
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...
