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Credit Where It’s Due: A Juneteenth Tribute to Soaps’ Groundbreaking Black Characters
Soaps via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBack in 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law,...
Jeff Landry declares Juneteenth a state holiday, closes state government
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 3 days agoDay on Wednesday after Gov. Jeff Landry declared it a legal state holiday. The holiday, recognized...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCouncil of South Miami-Dade, an economic-development organization, after Hurricane Andrew devastated...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 2 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFinally, the slaves in Texas knew that the long war was over, as was their far longer bondage. It still took time for slavery to officially end when 13th Amendment to the Constitution ...
Juneteenth festivals, events and other celebrations to mark the holiday in Charlotte
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified later that year, formally ended...
What's open and closed for Juneteenth in Iowa?
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoThe proclamation did not end slavery, though. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery in America and was ratified Dec. 6, 1865, according to the National ...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBy the time enslaved people were declared free in Texas, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had already been passed by Congress and was well on...
Kansas celebrates Juneteenth, and ongoing fight for equality, for first time as state holiday
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTOPEKA — Anthony Lewis says Juneteenth is a time to reflect on progress made in the fight for civil...
Juneteenth colors: What they mean and the history behind the hues
Today· 2 days agoIt was Wednesday, June 19, when Major General Gordon Granger and his troops rode into Galveston,...
