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Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for Juneteenth.
Barrons.com· 37 minutes agoInvestors may be enjoying a mid-week pause thanks to Juneteenth. The last few months of 2024 have...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
After more than one try, West Virginia became a state of the union
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 6 hours 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 ...
Photos: Gainesville celebrates Juneteenth
The Gainesville Sun· 24 hours agoThe city of Gainesville celebrated with Journey to Juneteenth: The Jubilee downtown
Slavery did not end everywhere on Juneteenth | PennLive letters
The Patriot-News· 5 hours agoThe abolishment of slavery did not pertain to what were known as the “Indian Territories,” in the...
Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America | Opinion
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation ...
Check Your Pennies — They Could Be Worth $200,000
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance· 2 hours agoBefore you toss your old pennies in the coin jar, take a closer look at them. They could be worth thousands of dollars to avid coin collectors -- that a...
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was once site of Union Army camp during the Civil War
Belleville News-Democrat· 6 hours agoThe grounds which serve as the site of Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was used very much as it is today 170 years ago, as a place for agricultural fairs and other events. Camp Koerner — named after ...
Here’s the biggest news you missed
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoToday, the holiday is an opportunity for education about America's history with slavery and reckoning with that legacy. What happened in the news today? Louisiana...
The Switch Up — The living legacy of Juneteenth
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFor more than 400 years, 15 million Africans were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, according to data from the United Nations. By 1860, when...
