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The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth
Las Vegas Sun· 4 days agoMany Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free. For generations,...
Galveston investigating fatal West End balcony collapse
Galveston County Daily News· 5 days agoSusan Farb Morris, 68, of Houston, died at an island hospital Friday afternoon after a fall from her...
The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth
KOAA5· 4 days agoIt was the day when a Union officer reached Galveston, Texas, and announced their liberation. It would take another century and a half and lots of rallying ...
Norfolk’s Calvert Square neighborhood celebrates Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Crowds of people marched in Calvert Square for Juneteenth Wednesday afternoon....
Commentary: Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
Hartford Courant· 5 days agoIn Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into...
Tropical Weather
Galveston County Daily News· 4 days agoGalveston city worker Sean Kirby checks trash cans along Seawall Boulevard as rain falls,Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in Galveston, Texas
Here's how people are celebrating Juneteenth across the country
KTNV Las Vegas· 5 days agoJuneteenth is a national holiday to commemorate the official end of slavery in the United States....
The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth
The News-Times· 4 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in ...
A rain-soaked Galveston celebrates Juneteenth
Galveston County Daily News· 3 days agoWet weather didn’t dampen the celebration of freedom Wednesday during the 45th annual Al Edwards Juneteenth Celebration at the 1859 Ashton Villa in ...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
