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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 1 day 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...
"Project 2025" — AKA Far-Right Conservatives' Plan For Next Year — Is Going Viral For These 10...
BuzzFeed· 3 days agoThis idea was reportedly proposed to Trump in 2020 during the George Floyd protests, but he turned...
More money for raises and private school vouchers in the NC House budget proposal
NC Newsline via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe budget state House Republicans want would increase beginning teacher pay to $4,400 a month and...
Reparations have become the latest target for conservative activists. Advocates say they are...
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA conservative group’s lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, that provides...
‘Sometimes, the facts don’t matter’: Attacks on DEI are an anti-capitalist war on American...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoSince the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, several phrases associated with helping Black people...
What's Juneteenth and what's open, closed? Here's what Savannah residents need to know
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoThe holiday rose to prominence in 2020 amid the nationwide protests about racial inequality after...
Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for?
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJuneteenth is an official holiday first held to mark the close of slavery after the Civil War in Texas, but the George Floyd protests made it mainstream.
Los Angeles council OKs study of removing police from traffic enforcement
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoFour years ago, after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, reform advocates in Los Angeles...
The history and significance of Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJuneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country's second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom.
How Black Miami professionals see Juneteenth as an opportunity for cultural education
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe day became a federally recognized holiday in 2021 following nationwide protests and social...