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What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became the newest US federal holiday in 2021, though its storied history has held...
Juneteenth starts Friday in Gainesville
Gainesville Daily Register, Texas via Yahoo News· 7 days agoJun. 18—The end of slavery in Texas and the rest of the U.S. will be celebrated this weekend with a public party at B.P. Douglas Park. Club Sunday, a group of local
Mark Juneteenth by remembering the Black women who went above and beyond for the Union
Berkshire Eagle· 6 days agoToday is Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. on June 19, 1865, even though...
Inside the intense, person-by-person fight over the Black vote in a key swing state
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHe’s promoting dissension. He’s promoting dislike. He’s promoting ‘my way or the highway.’” Standing...
Sorority spends Juneteenth cleaning neglected graves at Oak Cliff Cemetery
Fox local via AOL· 6 days agoDALLAS - Members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and others have worked for weeks to uncover a...
Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has...
ABC57 South Bend· 7 days agoIn the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore. Harriet Tubman ...
GOP Candidate Tells Black Americans Seeking Reparations To 'Get The F**k Out' Of America
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 6 days agoValentina Gomez, whose campaign for Missouri secretary of state has consisted of homophobic stunts...
Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission hosting free Juneteenth food giveaway
KARK via Yahoo News· 7 days agoJuneteenth is a newly declared federal holiday celebrated on June 19 to mark the day enslaved people...
PHOTO STORY: Annual Juneteenth Festival returns to Plym Park - Leader Publications
Leader Publications· 5 days agoNILES — Community members gathered at Plym Park Wednesday for an afternoon of food, fun and...
Leah Levin, leading campaigner on human rights – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLeah Levin, who has died aged 98, was a leading figure for many decades in the international human...
