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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
Opinion | In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one.
Washington Post· 12 hours agoPresident Biden’s recent speech in Normandy, highlighting the choice the world faces between...
The biggest Juneteenth celebration in Washington is in Tacoma. Expect live music, food
Tacoma News Tribune· 1 day agoOn Wednesday one Tacoma park will be transformed into a free community festival with live music,...
Smith: Juneteenth must remind us of our shared humanity
Birmingham News· 4 hours agoAs we celebrate Juneteenth, we seem to have forgotten the consequences of dehumanizing our fellow...
Today in History: Abraham Lincoln accepts Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the Senate
Chicago Tribune· 4 days agoOn June 16, 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham ...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
‘The Indispensable Right’ Review: Why We Need Free Speech
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days ago—arguably the greatest enemy of free speech ever to be president—prosecutions for seditious speech...
Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
NPR· 13 hours agoThe troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln< ...
Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has...
CNN via AOL· 1 day ago“Prior to the war starting she had a vision,” Wyatt said. Two years after the Combahee Ferry Raid...
ByGone Muncie: The memorable Emancipation Day celebration of 1898
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAmericans at the end of the Civil War. In the late 19th century, some Black communities in the North...