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Biden commemorates 160th anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPresident Joe Biden this week commemorated the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s...
The 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation is a reminder of how far we’ve come as a...
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoOPINION: The proclamation — issued Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln — didn’t bring...
The Emancipation Proclamation in practice: A timeline
Stacker via AOL· 5 months agoStacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of...
Earliest Juneteenth celebration photographs from 19th-century
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPresident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years before all...
On New Year's Eve 1862, Black Americans awaited Emancipation. It began a new tradition
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew Year’s Eve is Watch Night. It is Freedom’s Eve. For 160 years, the passage to each new year has...
Emancipation Proclamation To Be Permanently Featured At National Archives
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLincoln's order, which declared slaves freed in Confederate-controlled states, has been only...
Misinformation about the reason we celebrate Juneteenth persists | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAs we celebrated our newest federal holiday, Juneteenth, last month, I heard so much misinformation...
Gainesville to host month-long events honoring Florida’s Emancipation Day and Juneteenth
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe month-long "Journey to Juneteenth" will be once again sponsored by the city of Gainesville to...
Standards gone awry: Arizona third graders must learn about Latinx but not Lincoln
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJust 39% of Arizona third graders who attend a traditional public school are proficient in reading,...
When Portsmouth mourned President Abraham Lincoln
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe first U.S. president born west of the Appalachian Mountains came quietly into the world on Feb. 12, 1809, but Portsmouth and the rest of the world...