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While Florida was part of the Confederacy, Key West was not and freed its slaves early
CBS News· 1 day agoDuring the Civil War, Florida was part of the Confederate States of America.
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 2 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
Opinion | Jan. 6, America’s Rupture and the Strange, Forgotten Power of Oblivion
New York Times· 6 days agoOn Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Nester had traveled to Washington with a group of fellow insurrectionists to...
Juneteenth Explained: What Is the Holiday, Why Was It Created and How Should It Be Celebrated?
Skanner· 2 days agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston ...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"What, to the American slave, is your fourth of July," Douglass said. "I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days ...
The history of actual American class war: When workers shot back
The Hill· 1 day agoWhen progressives point to the structural inequality of the American economy — between the...
Key Mississippi leader is open to replacing state’s white supremacist statues in Washington
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoCapitol in Washington, a move that would follow the lead of several other Southern... Speaker Jason White refers a measure to his committee in ...
How to battle the 2nd great insurrection
The Raw Story· 17 hours agoHave you noticed how rarely Republicans talk about actual issues? — They rant about brown people pouring over the southern border but refuse to even...
For True Freedom, We Need Power-Sharing Liberalism
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoInterestingly, if you attend not to national but to state politics, you find a picture of an American people who can come to supermajority ...
Why Juneteenth didn’t actually end slavery in Texas
Washington Post· 2 days agoThe earnest inquiry from the man, who had been forced to labor without pay, came more than 38 years after Maj. Gen. Gordon... landed on Galveston Island...
