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Guest Spot: The entire North Fork should celebrate Juneteenth - The Suffolk Times
The Suffolk Times· 2 days agoObserved on June 19, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. It commemorates the day in 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston ...
Biden to award Opal Lee, ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth,’ with highest civilian honor
KXAN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe White House announced Opal Lee from Marshall, Texas is one of 19 recipients of the Presidential...
Inside Biden’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring Black luminaries, including the...
theGrio via AOL· 2 days agoIn a packed East Room, President Biden calls the class of recipients ‘incredible people’ whose...
Memphis residents say environmental racism prompted pollution ‘cesspool,' wreaking havoc
USA Today· 7 days agoClarification: This article was updated on May 1, 2024, to specify which substances leaked into the...
Fort Worth’s Opal Lee to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
NBC Dallas Fort Worth· 3 days agoDr. Opal Lee will add a new accomplishment to her resume Friday when she is awarded the Presidential...
Marshall native among recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom
KTBS Shreveport· 4 days agoPresident Biden will be presenting 19 recipients with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday...
The Martha Graham School Will Host Teens Dance Graham Program This Month
Broadway World· 6 days agoThe Teens Dance Graham program will feature some of Martha Graham's great modernist innovations in...
Toxic gas adds to a long history of pollution in southwest Memphis
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoFor many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on...
Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered as instrumental in preserving one of the earliest free Black...
Daily Press· 5 days agoA cousin of Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered him as a disruptor. Dozens of people attended a...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum
Chicago Sun-Times· 6 days agoOne of the most fateful documents of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency — and in all of American history — will go on public display this week at the legendary Illinoisan’s namesake museum in Springfield ...