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Juneteenth is on a Wednesday this year. Here's what will be open and closed on the holiday
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoAlthough the Emancipation ...federal holiday. According to the History Channel, "In 1979, Texas...
Israel’s attack on Gaza is genocide. This California student had every right to say it | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoShe believes those facts amount to genocide, and she has every right to say so. I believe it is a...
Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 24 minutes agoJarvis Johnson, D-Houston, on Wednesday called for Texas to end its commemoration as a state...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFor his refusal to fight in the Korean War, Lawson spent nearly 14 months in prison. After being...
Naomi Klein blasts ‘conspiracy theorist in chief’ Trump as she wins Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
The Independent US via AOL· 4 hours agoKlein, who was a guest speaker at a Labour Party conference when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, has also...
Local organizer explains origins of Juneteenth
WIBW Topeka· 14 hours agoThe newest federal holiday recognized by the United States government, Juneteenth, has a storied history. “Major Granger after the Civil War went to the...
Essay winners: Juneteenth lets us remember nation's past while striving for better future
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIn I863, the Civil War was in its third year. Many lives had been lost, and the end was nowhere in...
The week in politics: Tennessee's senators decry IVF votes as an election-year stunt
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoCamper last year sponsored the bill that made Juneteenth an official state holiday in Tennessee....
A Civil War hero got a new statue. Her name is Harriet Tubman.
The Christian Science Monitor· 19 hours agoThe pastor of the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church, and a former South Carolina state...
A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
The Economist· 4 hours agoDESMOND TUTU once wrote that “we in South Africa…sell ourselves short.” In a country with many problems it is easy to forget its “remarkable...
