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Explainer-What is Juneteenth and how are people marking the day?
Reuters via AOL· 6 days agoIt became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a bill by President Joe Biden....
Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 4 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...
How George Floyd’s Death Exposed a Fake Syndrome: ‘Excited Delirium’
Scientific American· 4 days agoOn May 25, 2020, George Floyd was arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy...
Phoenix police problems are too deep to fix without a judge's oversight
The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoDuring the 2020 protests that grew out of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Phoenix officers ...
Jamaal Bowman on Fighting the Pro-Israel Lobby — and for ‘Collective Liberation’
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoBowman speaks with Rolling Stone about his primary against George Latimer — and his fight against...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 5 days agoOn Valentine’s Day, The Root reported that LAPD officers came under fire for allegedly circulating a Valentine-style photo of George Floyd</ ...
Tate: Swapping cops with social workers dangerous idea
Boston Herald· 5 days agoYou call 9-11, but all that’s available are unarmed social workers. Cambridge is creating a social...
Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement...
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat’s just a few shy of the total killings in 1995, when the city earned the nickname...
Poll: Southerners most likely to support preserving Confederacy's legacy
Axios· 2 days agoNearly 60% of Southerners support efforts to preserve the legacy of the Confederacy, which is more...
The Origins of Juneteenth and Why It Falls on June 19th
Time via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThough it’s been celebrated by Black Americans as early as in the mid-late 1800s, Juneteenth is a...