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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 5 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...
Kansas celebrates Juneteenth, and ongoing fight for equality, for first time as state holiday
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTOPEKA — Anthony Lewis says Juneteenth is a time to reflect on progress made in the fight for civil...
California’s Black legislators make case for reparations bills while launching statewide tour –...
KION 46 Salinas· 6 days agoSeveral members of California’s Legislative Black Caucus launched a statewide tour in San Diego...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWilbur Bell, 83, believes he is a living son of slavery in America. Family history has Bell’s...
Meek Mill joins Murphy to launch N.J. clemency overhaul on Juneteenth
NJ.com· 5 days agoSlavery is banned everywhere in America except the prison system. The 13th Amendment states,...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 5 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
Harvard study: Feds well-positioned to provide slavery reparations
The Day· 13 hours agoA man wears a button on his suit jacket during a rally in support of reparations for African...
Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States
New York Times· 5 days agoThe writers, members of the New York University Prison Education Program Research Lab, are the authors of “Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison...
The history and significance of Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJuneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country's second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom.