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The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via AOL· 4 days agoThis week, many Floridians celebrated Emancipation Day to commemorate May 20, 1865 —the day the ...
Colonial Williamsburg offers free admission for Juneteenth events
WAVY via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoOn June 19, 1865 thousands of enslaved people learned they had been emancipated when Union forces...
National Archives' Historic Showcase of Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth Order in DC
Hoodline· 7 days agoIn a rare and historic display, the National Archives in Washington, DC, will showcase two pivotal...
Commentary: Remembering Memorial Day's true origins
GBH News· 21 hours agoOn that special day of remembrance, there was a parade of 3,000 school children carrying roses; women with baskets of flowers, wreaths, and crosses,...
Kentucky governor designates Juneteenth a holiday, bans hairstyle discrimination
theGrio via AOL· 13 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had...
Why Red Foods Are Traditionally Eaten On Juneteenth
Daily Meal via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlthough Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was delivered two years prior, freedom wasn't fully realized until the news was announced to the 250,000...
Documenting and preserving Virginia’s largest, most revered trees
The Daily Progress· 7 days agoVirginia is home to nearly 80 national champion big trees, consistently placing the commonwealth in...
Local historian reflects on life of Salt Lake's Emancipation Day queen
KUTV Salt Lake City· 3 days agoIn 1898, 15-year-old Elnora Dudley was crowned Salt Lake City’s Emancipation Day Queen. Salt Lake’s...
On this day in history, May 23, 1900, Sgt. William H. Carney receives Medal of Honor
Fox News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoOn this day in history, Sgt. William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor — the first...
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via AOL· 3 days agoGrant (he attended Grant’s wedding) had no illusions as to what the war was about: slavery. As he recounted in his memoirs, the Emancipation Proclamation