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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJune 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
50 Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” the annual federal holiday recognizes the end of...
Toxic gas adds to a long history of pollution in southwest Memphis
Staten Island Advance· 2 hours agoFor many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 5 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
Juneteenth celebration scheduled for Willoughby Park
The Daily Dunklin Democrat· 7 days agoTanesha Lemons has a passion for celebrating cultural heritage and fostering community engagement. The Kennett native is in the process of organizing a Juneteenth celebration event. “I’ve been ...
Exhibit on emancipation at Williams College powerful, necessary
Albany Times Union· 2 days agoThe anchor is the 1862 executive order by Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, which has...
Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered as instrumental in preserving one of the earliest free Black...
Daily Press· 6 hours agoA cousin of Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered him as a disruptor. Dozens of people attended a...
Race relations task force in Burlington call its quits without funding or much support
The Journal Times· 1 day agoA task force on improving race relations in Burlington has voted to disband after a three-year...
Detroit's Civil War history, uncovered - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 5 days agoIn 1863, as the Civil War raged on, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation ...