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According To An NFL Memo Juneteenth Will Be Recognized As A League Holiday

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Juneteenth by the Numbers | The Atlanta Voice

Here’s a look at Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day and Jubilee Day, by the

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California State Capitol Goes Black … Red and Green to Mark Juneteenth – Voice and Viewpoint

The state of California started recognizing Juneteenth or Black “Freedom Day,” marking the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, back in 2003 as an official state

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Juneteenth: A look at how freedmen shaped Dallas/Fort Worth

A standout feature of the Elm Street region is the Knights of Pythias Temple at 2551 Elm St. The building, begun in 1915 in French-inspired Beaux Arts architecture, was described as a glorious showplace designed by William Sidney Pittman, an early African American architect who later became the

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'Gone With The Wind' Back On HBO Max But With More Historical Context

The new streaming platform pulled the 1939 Civil War flick a few weeks ago after it was criticized for glorifying the antebellum South, but it promised to return the movie after adding historical context and a condemnation of

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Noose found in garage of black race car driver

(Reuters) – NASCAR has stepped up security around Bubba Wallace for the rain-delayed Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway yesterday after a noose was found in the

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Juneteenth Marks Day Last Enslaved People Freed

The next year, former slaves started celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston, and it eventually reached other

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Tennessee Republicans vote to keep KKK leader bust in Capitol

The bronze bust of Confederate and Ku Klux Klan leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, will remain inside the Tennessee State

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The Movement for Black Lives Announces Juneteenth Weekend of Action

In observance of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of African slaves in America, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is organizing a weekend of action to demand divestment from police departments and investment in black

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Congress Could Make Juneteenth A National Holiday

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has been leading the GOP’s efforts on police reform in the wake of mass Black Lives Matter protests, said over the weekend that he was “open” to the idea of designating Juneteenth as a federal

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FATHERS ARE NEEDED AND DESERVE TO BE APPRECIATED! | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Unfortunately, because of the unique circumstance surrounding the attacks on Black families in the United States, Black fathers are not always taken

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Reverse Freedom Rides: When segregationists tricked blacks from the South into moving north

A segregationist publicity stunt spearheaded by George Singelmann of the White Citizens Council in New Orleans, the Reverse Freedom Rides program was to trick hundreds of African Americans from the South into moving

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Two All-Black Fighting Units

There were two all-Black units, the Massasoit Guards and the Liberty Guards in Boston in the 1850s, but they were not attached to the militia of the State because there was opposition 'to there being any Colored men belonging to the State Militia.' Many of these men eventually joined the

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

California State Capitol Goes Black … Red and Green to Mark Juneteenth

The state of California started recognizing Juneteenth or Black “Freedom Day,” marking the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, back in 2003 as an official state

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The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Releases New Report on the Reconstruction Era / Video

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), founded by Bryan Stevenson, released a new groundbreaking Report on the Era of Reconstruction and the violence that defined that period of time – an era from which our nation has yet to

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Congress Sends Juneteenth Legislation to Trump | Dallas Weekly

June 19, 1863 Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society enforce the Emancipation order

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Racial reckoning turns to symbols

Protesters are taking ropes and sledgehammers to symbols of oppression, from equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee to Christopher Columbus monuments, but elected and appointed officials are also whisking them away by decree, including a Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the

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Etched in clay: the 'poem vessels' of enslaved potter David Drake

Crafted in 1858 by the enslaved African American potter and poet David Drake during a time when it was illegal for slaves to read or write, the handsome jar, glazed in brown alkaline, is signed and dated by Drake, known as “Dave the

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Trump Tweets Video with "White Power" Chant, Then Deletes It | Dallas Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power,” a racist slogan associated with white

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Book Addresses Whether or Not the Killing of George Floyd Was a Tipping Point for Racism in America

To help both Black and white Americans better understand the impact of racism in America, Paradigm Publishing is offering free copies of the Amazon Kindle book, Solving The Race Issue In America by

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Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Remove Rebel Emblem from Flag

By Emily Wagster Pettus

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‘Donald Trump is More Focused on Saving Statues of Slaveholders & Confederate Generals than Protecting Americans from the Coronavirus’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ (CA-43) statement on Donald Trump’s negligence in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to protestors calling for the removal of statues of Confederate generals and

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Kayleigh McEnany and the Women Who Do PR for White Supremacy

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Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain - and now national action

In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a parade, a community festival, a soulful rendition of “Lift

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‘It Was a Modern-Day Lynching’: Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy – Free Press of Jacksonville

From 1877 to 1950, more than 4,400 black men, women, and children were lynched by white mobs, according to the Equal Justice

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Fact check: Trump glosses over racial disparities in jobs numbers while invoking George Floyd | The Atlanta Voice

Trump invoked Floyd’s memory to tout the jobs report, which showed a drop in overall unemployment but also highlighted lingering racial disparities in the US

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#Juneteenth: The History Of Juneteenth & The Continued Quest For Freedom

Known as Freedom Day, Liberation Day, and also Emancipation Day, June 19 marks when Union Army forces from the north arrived in Galveston, Texas to finally deliver federal orders that slavery was officially

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Black Men Letters to America…The Next Generation

Data News Weekly wanted to publish an open letter to America from young Black

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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