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The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via AOL· 15 hours agoThis week, many Floridians celebrated Emancipation Day to commemorate May 20, 1865 —the day the ...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe City of Tallahassee recognizes May 20 as Florida's Emancipation Day, and throughout the month,...
Florida Emancipation Day again recognized in Gainesville at museum in Black community
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe city of Gainesville kicked off its month-long Journey to Juneteenth celebration on Saturday with...
Jacksonville holds 4th annual celebration of Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation Day
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 4 days agoJacksonville city leaders and state officials commemorated Florida’s 159th Emancipation Proclamation...
Emancipation Proclamation read on Knott House Museum steps
Tallahassee Democrat· 4 days agoToday, Reginald Ellis, Ph.D., Provost Professor at Florida A&M University, read the document in...
'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first...
Jada Pinkett Smith Gave a Subtle Update on Her Estranged Marriage With Husband Will Smith
SheKnows via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoIt’s been seven months since Jada Pinkett Smith confirmed that she and husband Will Smith had been...
‘Going to be missed’: Viewers, contributors of GBH’s ‘Basic Black’ mourn show being taken off air -...
The Boston Globe· 7 hours ago“We relied on ‘Basic Black’ for years to have our perspective,” said Michael Curry, chief executive...
Freedom Day: How Florida celebrates Emancipation Day
WCTV Tallahassee· 4 days agoGeneral Edward McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation at the Knott House in Tallahassee, freeing slaves in Florida, on May 20, 1865.
City leaders, local organizations hold annual Jacksonville Emancipation Celebration
WJXT Jacksonville· 5 days agoCity leaders and different organizations are holding a celebration for the annual Jacksonville ...