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19 Juneteenth Facts To Celebrate Black Independence Day
Blavity via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJuneteenth, celebrated on June nineteenth, is coming up and it is time for sorrowful reflection but...
Yes, Juneteenth is a federal holiday
WLTX-TV Columbia· 1 hour agoJuneteenth is observed annually on June 19 to commemorate the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free....
Fact-checking Byron Donalds’ ‘Jim Crow’ comments on Black families, conservatism
Austin American-Statesman· 5 days agoRep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently tried...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 2 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
Louisville Juneteenth Festival celebrates freedom, history of African American community
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe event, which has food, vendors and entertainment, will continue until the evening with an after...
Juneteenth: 5 events on the South Shore. Music, food, history and games
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoJuneteenth marks the day on June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informed people in Galveston, Texas, that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation ...
Why do some Columbusites celebrate emancipation two months before Juneteenth?
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAnd some even celebrate it two months earlier. In fact, Gary Sprayberry, a history professor at...
Editorial: The history, and hypocrisy, of the upside-down American flag
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAn upside-down U.S. flag outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s home is the latest...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
Our Chicago: Celebrating Juneteenth across the city
ABC 7 Chicago· 1 day agoWednesday is Juneteenth. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people of African descent in Galveston, Texas learned that they were free. Perri Irmer is...