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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 4 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...
Carter’s next potential milestone: First former president to see 100
Washington Post· 1 day agoJimmy Carter has been in hospice care for 16 months, but he continues to eat well and defy the odds...
The beginners guide to celebrating Juneteenth
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after...
After more than one try, West Virginia became a state of the union
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJun. 20—Today is West Virginia Day, the anniversary of West Virginia becoming the nation's 35th state. To my knowledge, West Virginia is the only state that was created by seceding from an existing ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBiden said: "All Americans can feel the power of this day, and learn from our history." It was the...
Metro-east civil rights leaders discuss the importance of the Juneteenth holiday
Belleville News-Democrat· 4 days ago“It’s a holiday for every person who believes the peculiar institution of slavery was wrong and that...
Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
NPR· 5 days agoThe troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln< ...
"When you know you're free; it takes it to a whole, entirely different level."
FOX 4 News· 4 days agoJune 19th, 1865, is a crucial part of American history. It was the day that a general went to Galveston, Texas, to share the news that all slaves were free under President ...
Juneteenth: Black Congress members from Ohio discuss progress and problems since holiday’s...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 5 days agoIt took more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation for...
Juneteenth celebrations continue to grow in downtown Salisbury - Salisbury Post
The Salisbury Post· 4 days agoThe 29th annual Juneteenth celebrations provided music, fun, food and history from Sunday afternoon...
