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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 days 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...
What is Juneteenth? The beginner's guide to celebrating the federal holiday
WKYC Cleveland· 6 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via AOL· 5 days agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
Meet Opal Lee, the 'grandmother of the movement' to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhen President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of...
What is Juneteenth? What do I say? What do I do? A starter guide to the federal holiday
Tri-City Herald· 6 days agoThose who celebrate Juneteenth have different traditions for marking the holiday, and it’s important to know what some of them are.
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 6 days agoWhy is it called Juneteenth? The word was created by joining the words "June" and "nineteenth" together. Is Juneteenth a federal holiday
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 6 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States ...
Wednesday is a federal holiday. What you should know about Juneteenth (June 19, 2024)
Birmingham News· 7 days agoWednesday, June 19th is a federal holiday, meaning government offices will be closed and mail will...
Map shows states where Juneteenth is recognized as a public holiday
Newsweek· 7 days agoOn that day, some 250,000 still-enslaved African Americans were told that the Civil War had ended...
This 97-Year-Old Activist Helped Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Biography via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOpal Lee earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2022 for her part in creating the Juneteenth...