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Juneteenth holiday: An important moment to contemplate our nation’s past and present
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhat in the world could they have been thinking? That’s one of the questions (or, at least, one...
Juneteenth events to celebrate around Iowa
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOrganizations and cities across Iowa are celebrating Juneteenth with music festivals, learning opportunities and more. Juneteenth, observed annually on...
Trump has history of insulting Black history and communities, says senior Democrat on Juneteenth
The Independent US via AOL· 5 days agoRepublican ‘is a lot of things but he certainly isn’t subtle’, argues Democratic National Committee...
Juneteenth 2024: What the Holiday Represents and How to Celebrate
Entertainment Tonight· 6 days agoJuneteenth -- named for and celebrated on June 19 -- commemorates the true ending of slavery in the...
To Mark Juneteenth, Make Tulsa’s Black Wall Street a National Monument
Sierra Club· 5 days agoWhen Terence Crutcher, a father of four who sang in his church choir, was shot and killed by the police in 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his twin sister, Dr.
Commentary: Juneteenth should remind us how far we've come, how far we have to go
The Post and Courier· 6 days agoThe Juneteenth holiday commemorates the events of June, 19 1865, when news of the Jan. 1, 1863...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
Special Edition: Chicago celebrates Juneteenth
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoToday is Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation...
Feeling a bit gaslit by the new federal holiday? Me too.
Real Change News· 5 days agoOne hundred and three years ago, a mob of white people looted, bombed and burned Black Wall Street,...