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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 6 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
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 7 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· 6 days agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
Granderson: Overcoming America's past is everyone's responsibility
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThe following year Trump was suing to have the votes tossed out where a lot of Black people live in...
What is Juneteenth? What do I say? What do I do? A starter guide to the federal holiday
Tri-City Herald· 7 days agoThose who celebrate Juneteenth have different traditions for marking the holiday, and it’s important to know what some of them are.
What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 6 days agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became the newest federal holiday in 2021. Here’s what’s open and closed on ...
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...
Florida state offices closed extra day for Fourth of July. See state, federal holidays
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoYes, July 4, also called Independence Day, is one of 11 federal holidays: New Year’s Day - Jan. 1 Martin Luther King’s Birthday...Birthday - third Monday in February Memorial ...
Juneteenth advances as state holiday despite enduring opposition
Axios· 6 days agoJuneteenth, the once-obscure day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, has...
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