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    • Juneteenth Is a Celebration of Freedom

      Juneteenth Is a Celebration of Freedom

      Reason.com via Yahoo News· 5 days ago

      But 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...

    • 9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth

      9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth

      MediaFeed via AOL· 6 days ago

      Gen. 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...

    • Local Black-owned businesses celebrate Juneteenth

      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 ago

      Juneteenth 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 ...

    • How to celebrate Juneteenth in Los Angeles

      How to celebrate Juneteenth in Los Angeles

      Los Angeles Times· 5 days ago

      On this day in 1865, the federal government arrived in Galveston, Texas, to declare that all enslaved people must be freed. The Emancipation Proclamation...