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College Soccer: ETBU's Crawford adds Burke as assistant coach
The Marshall News Messenger· 24 hours agoBringing a former player back to help with the program, East Texas Baptist University Head Men’s...
Juneteenth Is a Celebration of Freedom
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut to this day, it has mostly survived as the ideal this country should chase. That's not to say it means the same thing to everyone; people of...
Five things: Juneteenth, a 'cotton candy' startup, and a stress-free day - Boston Business Journal
The Business Journals· 5 days agoToday is World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, and of course it's Juneteenth. Here are the five things you need to know in Boston business news on this midweek holiday. Eli Chavez at BostInno reports ...
9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth
MediaFeed via AOL· 6 days agoGen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army and 2,000 soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, to announce and enforce the liberation of the state's some 250,000...
George Ducas Has Roots in Houston, But His Head is in Bakersfield
Houston Press· 3 days agoThe quote makes a lot of sense when you consider that Ducas was born in Galveston, lived in...
'Grandmother of Juneteenth' Opal Lee discusses her work to solidify the holiday
NPR· 4 days agoTo be a whole people, to be one people is a goal that hasn't been realized yet. I want to be here when it happens. KELLY: Yeah. I mean, I guess that's the last thing I want ...
Local Black-owned businesses celebrate Juneteenth
KXRM Colorado Springs via Yahoo News· 4 days ago(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Juneteenth flag waved at the Colorado Capitol on June 19, commemorating the day Union soldiers marched toGalveston, Texas in...
Winona Celebrates Juneteenth
WKBT La Crosse· 4 days agoJuneteenth is a day commemorating when slaves in Galveston, Texas were freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. It has been celebrated as a federal holiday since ...
Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott educates KU basketball team about Juneteenth
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe very notion of Juneteenth, he said, “is kind of a new thing for the country in a lot of ways.”...
How to celebrate Juneteenth in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoOn this day in 1865, the federal government arrived in Galveston, Texas, to declare that all enslaved people must be freed. The Emancipation Proclamation...