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Senator Markey champions Juneteenth federal holiday and criticizes Supreme Court's conservative...
GBH News· 20 hours agoMassachusetts Senator Ed Markey was one of the lead sponsors of the bill that established Juneteenth...
Juneteenth explained: What is the holiday, why was it created and how should it be celebrated? |...
ABC 6 Providence· 19 hours agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Amazon fined $5.9 million over warehouse worker quotas in California
Reuters via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoAmazon.com has been fined $5.9 million by a California labor regulator who says the online retail...
Juneteenth is on a Wednesday this year. Here's what will be open and closed on the holiday
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe move came two years after it was declared a national holiday by way of the Juneteenth National...
USC Jewish Voice for Peace meets with congressmembers - Daily Trojan
Daily Trojan· 5 hours agoOn June 4, three members of the USC chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace joined nearly 200 JVP Action...
Senate sends package bolstering nuclear power sector to Biden’s desk
The Hill via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoThe Senate on Tuesday passed a package aimed at bolstering the nation’s nuclear power sector,...
Congress Just Passed The Biggest Clean-Energy Bill Since Biden's Climate Law
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoIn a rare show of bipartisan unity on clean energy, the House of Representatives voted 365 to 36...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 1 day agoIn the court of public opinion, more charges are coming against America’s favorite electric vehicle manufacturer. Reuters is reporting that two US senators, Richard Blumenthal ...
Editorial: Juneteenth celebrates freedoms belatedly won
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 4 hours agoSince 2021, Louisiana has joined the federal government in recognizing Juneteenth, which...
Here is how Juneteenth came to be and why it's so important
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoSheila Jackson Lee of Texas, Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, and Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of...