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What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became the newest US federal holiday in 2021, though its storied history has held...
Emancipation Proclamation to go on permanent display at National Archives in 2026
NBC Washington· 13 hours agoThe National Archives has put a date to last year's announcement that the Emancipation Proclamation...
On This Day, June 19: Deadly Hurricane Agnes makes landfall in Florida
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe day came to be celebrated annually as Juneteenth, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day....
Sen. Tim Scott and Dr. Ben Carson host Juneteenth commemoration
KGNS Laredo TX· 2 days agoWASHINGTON (Gray DC) -[ANCHOR] Juneteenth is a holiday marking the end of slavery in America. To...
Is the post office closed on Juneteenth? Here's what's open on Wednesday.
WCNC Charlotte· 4 days agoMany Americans will celebrate Juneteenth on Wednesday, June 19, commemorating the day when the last...
Juneteenth 2024: What’s open and what’s closed in DC, Maryland and Virginia
FOX 5 Washington D.C.· 2 days agoJune 19 — Juneteenth — commemorates the day that Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and 2,0000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay...that two and a half years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863 ...
The Good Side: Juneteenth Mural Project
WKYT Lexington· 2 days agoThe Absolute Equality Juneteenth Mural Project recently added a new mural in Washington, DC
Juneteenth, 40 Acres and a Mule and Other Broken Promises to African Americans
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSupreme Court Building after the High Tribunal ruled that segregtion in public schoolsis...
NYC Juneteenth 2024: What’s open and closed, things to do
FOX 5 New York· 2 days agoMany Americans will celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in...