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Kentucky governor designates Juneteenth a holiday, bans hairstyle discrimination
theGrio· 2 hours agoKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers on...
Trump vows to 'save' deep-blue New York City in massive, historic Bronx rally
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThey said they believed President Biden's performance on those issues would lead to more New Yorkers...
10 Surprising Facts About Memorial Day
Time via AOL· 23 hours agoFink says. In June 1972, TIME commented that the holiday had become “a three-day nationwide hootenanny that seems to have lost much of its original...
Daily Briefing: Storms, fire and sharks
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoJosef Newgarden on Sunday became the sixth driver to win consecutive Indianapolis 500s. Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY, sign up for...
Tired of delayed flights? New flying law offers refunds, keeps families together.
The Christian Science Monitor· 3 days agoThe airline industry is on a hiring spree to staff planes and ensure smoother flights due to an...
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The Valdosta Daily Times· 11 hours agoIn what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in ...
GoLocalProv | Food | “Taste of Juneteenth” Being Held in Providence on First Year of State Holiday
GoLocalProv· 1 day agoJuneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the last slaves were freed in Texas, two and a half...
Biden administration announces sale of nearly a million barrels of gasoline in effort to lower...
Courthouse News Service· 6 days agoThe Biden administration is selling nearly one million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast oil...
Gov. Kay Ivey makes Juneteenth Alabama state holiday for 2024
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 days agoGina Maiola, communications director for Ivey, said Monday the memo did not list all the state holidays but that the governor added a couple of days, Juneteenth and the day ...
A 97 year old visionary to visit Santa Fe
Santa Fe New Mexican· 3 days agoBy 2021, this very same little girl — now 94 — was the national figurehead behind making June 19 a federal holiday honoring the freedom struggle and...