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What is Juneteenth? The beginner's guide to celebrating the federal holiday
WKYC Cleveland· 6 hours agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after...
Fact Check: Reports Say Canada Preparing for 2nd US Civil War. Here's What We Know
Snopes· 1 day agoOn June 16, 2024, a Facebook user posted a status claiming Canada was making preparations in the...
Kevin Costner poured his heart into ‘Horizon’ because it’s a movie he’s always wanted to see
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 hours ago“It’s two hours and fifty-one minutes,” he told CNN in a recent interview as he sipped on a soothing...
9 Things People Don’t Know About Juneteenth
MediaFeed via AOL· 6 hours agoIt became widespread in the early 20th century and gained national recognition during the Civil Rights Movement. To mark the...for various reasons. At...
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 14 hours agoOn 19 June 1865 - months after the northern US states defeated the slave-owning South in the US Civil War - enslaved African-Americans
The Deeper Meaning Behind the Juneteenth Flag
Good Housekeeping via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoCivil War—and two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday has been celebrated by African ...
Baseball Legend Willie Mays Is Dead At 93
HuffPost via Yahoo Sports· 54 minutes agoThroughout the 1950s and 1960s, he did not often speak about civil rights issues, for which he was criticized by Jackie Robinson. In his 1964 book,...
Here is how Juneteenth came to be and why it's so important
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoAfrican Americans who left their former masters were often hunted down and killed. The post-Civil ...
Kevin Costner Tells Whoopi Goldberg to ‘Take Control' During 'The View': Inside the Viral Moment
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoThe two did keep talking though, after the commercial break. You can watch this entire...
Modern surgery began with saws and iron hands: How amputation transformed the body in the...
Medical Xpress· 9 hours agoScholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed for amputation techniques and...
