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The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via AOL· 12 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...
Jacksonville holds 4th annual celebration of Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation Day
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 3 days agoJacksonville city leaders and state officials commemorated Florida’s 159th Emancipation Proclamation...
Kentucky governor takes action on Juneteenth holiday and against discrimination based on hairstyles
KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque· 9 hours agoKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers on...
An apology is the cornerstone of reparations bills in California. What would it do?
The Sacramento Bee· 15 hours agoAn apology is the cornerstone of reparations bills in California. With 14 bills presented by the California Legislative Black Caucus and the more than 100 recommendations crafted from two years ...
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...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Gannett via AOL· 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· 11 hours agoGov. Andy Beshear on Thursday signed executive orders making Juneteenth an executive branch holiday...
Lies About American History We Were All Taught in School
Cheapism via AOL· 8 hours agoA lot of U.S. history is too good to be true — and actually is not. Sometimes fact is ignored, or...