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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
WBIR-TV Knoxville· 7 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Juneteenth: A holiday for everyone - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Martha's Vineyard Times· 2 hours agoAt the Tabernacle Flag Pole in Oak Bluffs, Islanders gathered at noon Wednesday for a flag raising ceremony marking Juneteenth, the national holiday that ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 6 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States ...
What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
Juneteenth is now just another holiday – you can tell by the merch
Maryland Matters via Yahoo News· 7 days agoJuneteenth has been unable to escape the inevitable – commercialization. An online search for ...
Kansas celebrates Juneteenth, and ongoing fight for equality, for first time as state holiday
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLewis, the superintendent of Lawrence Public Schools who serves on the Kansas African American...
Juneteenth holiday: An important moment to contemplate our nation’s past and present
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhat in the world could they have been thinking? That’s one of the questions (or, at least, one...
Granderson: Overcoming America's past is everyone's responsibility
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe following year Trump was suing to have the votes tossed out where a lot of Black people live in...
‘People have worked so hard.’ Woman who helped make Juneteenth a national holiday visits New Jersey
News 12 New Jersey· 6 days agoIt’s been three years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday. It commemorates the day enslaved Blacks in Galveston, Texas learned about their freedom ...