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Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
NPR· 4 days agoThe troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln< ...
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was once site of Union Army camp during the Civil War
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCamp Koerner — named after Gustave Koerner, a politician and close friend of Abraham Lincoln — was...
What's open and what's closed in NYC on Juneteenth?
CBS News· 3 days agoCity. What is the meaning of Juneteenth? Juneteenth is observed to mark the day that the last enslaved people in the United States received notice of the...
Photos: TJ hosts AL softball, baseball for Strike Out Cancer doubleheader
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 1 day agoDonna Hick and Stephanie Ridder, two women close to the TJ and AL communities who are currently...
Galveston's only Juneteenth art gallery inspires next generation of changemakers
ABC13 Houston· 3 days agoOn the same corner where Juneteenth was born nearly 160 years ago, a movement is taking place to...
Opinion: The presidential debate our democracy deserves
CNN via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoFormer White House speechwriter for President Obama Terry Szuplat lays out a few ways that this...
Juneteenth Explained: What Is the Holiday, Why Was It Created and How Should It Be Celebrated?
Skanner· 4 days agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham
Ellie MacPherson to Present BABE LINCOLN at Edinburgh Fringe This Summer
Broadway World· 2 days agoWriter, performer, and historian (the funny kind) Ellie MacPherson will return to Edinburgh Fringe...
Will the real Donald Trump get the coverage he deserves? - Roll Call
CQ Politics· 1 day agoAt a roundtable discussion at the church, Trump didn’t do himself any favors when he said he did...
Mark Juneteenth by remembering the Black women who went above and beyond for the Union
Berkshire Eagle· 3 days agoToday is Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. on June 19, 1865, even though...