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The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via AOL· 16 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
Tallahassee Democrat· 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...
Gov. Andy Beshear signs Juneteenth and CROWN Act executive orders
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoThe holiday was originally celebrated in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and...
Kentucky governor takes action on Juneteenth holiday and against discrimination based on hairstyles
FOX21 Colorado Springs· 13 hours agoKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers on...
On this day in history, May 23, 1900, Sgt. William H. Carney receives Medal of Honor
Fox News via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOn this day in history, Sgt. William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor — the first...
An apology is the cornerstone of reparations bills in California. What would it do?
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 19 hours ago“We’re asking for money to display the apology prominently in the Capitol with the same gravitas as...
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...
Beshear makes Juneteenth a Kentucky holiday, protects natural hair in state workplaces
Kentucky Lantern via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoGov. Andy Beshear on Thursday signed executive orders making Juneteenth an executive branch holiday...