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The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via AOL· 21 hours agoThis week, many Floridians celebrated Emancipation Day to commemorate May 20, 1865 —the day the ...
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
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoOn the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first...
Photos: 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...
Takeaways from Tallahassee — Celebration time
Florida Politics· 6 days agoWhile June 19 is the official federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, Gen. Edward McCook first read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps ...
Kentucky governor takes action on Juneteenth holiday and against discrimination based on hairstyles
FOX 5 San Diego· 18 hours agoKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers on...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWar soldiers. 11 a.m. - Church bells in Tallahassee will ring for two minutes to celebrate Florida's...
On this day in history, May 23, 1900, Sgt. William H. Carney receives Medal of Honor
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn this day in history, Sgt. William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor — the first...
Gov. Andy Beshear signs Juneteenth and CROWN Act executive orders
Gannett via AOL· 8 hours agoThe holiday was originally celebrated in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and...
An apology is the cornerstone of reparations bills in California. What would it do?
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 1 day ago“We’re asking for money to display the apology prominently in the Capitol with the same gravitas as...