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Before Juneteenth came Florida's Emancipation Day - and Pensacola will celebrate
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 20 hours ago"Most people have never heard about that,'' said Gulley, board president of the Ella L. Jordan African-American History...
50 Juneteenth Quotes to Celebrate Black Culture, History and Freedom
PureWow via AOL· 5 days agoAlthough the Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved people should be free in 1863,...
The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum holds annual 'A Delray Beach Family Affair'
WPBF Palm Beach· 15 hours agoThe Spady Cultural Heritage Museum holds annual 'A Delray Beach Family Affair'
Opal Lee, 'Grandmother of Juneteenth,' receives honorary degree from SMU
Gannett via AOL· 10 hours agoWhat is Juneteenth? When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, to free enslaved African Americans, it took time ...
Let leadership qualities drive your presidential vote
San Antonio Express-News· 10 hours agoIn “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” author Doris Kearns Goodwin teaches us how four presidents — Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson — “set a bar ...
Opal Lee receives honorary doctorate degree from SMU
NBC Dallas Fort Worth· 1 day agoLee is a civil rights icon who championed Juneteenth awareness, an informal Texas holiday celebrated since Reconstruction recognizing the day in 1865,...
The Reason Behind Red Juneteenth Foods and Drinks Isn't So Straight Foward
Good Housekeeping· 4 days agoThe celebration marks the period in 1865 in which enslaved people in Galveston, Texas received the...
Civil War relics of Gen. William T. Sherman up for auction, bidding begins Tuesday
Gannett via AOL· 2 days ago“Many attribute Sherman’s victory with the Atlantic campaign and March to the Sea with allowing...
Dave Anderson: Discard the principle vs. compromise distinction
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 15 hours agoOne of the most basic conflicts in politics, and in life in general, is whether to stand by your...
How Jazz Became the Voice of Revolution
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFew remember the song because it played only during the six-week run of My People, a show staged in Chicago in 1963 during a centenary celebration of the...
