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Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott educates KU basketball team about Juneteenth
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoWednesday was a momentous day for Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott, whose stirring and...
Niche collectors, tourists behaving badly, parental guilt: Catch up on the day’s stories
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoWelcome to 5 Things PM! Parents and kids have been battling over screen time for years. Recent...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
Juneteenth NJ Festival Makes a Comeback With Community Pride and Cash Cobain
Teen Vogue via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks ago© KaiYanna Tsehay Washington / @OFFICIAL_KAIKAI It was all a dream for three friends from New Jersey...
On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoWASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the...
Opinion: Juneteenth, Haiti and the power of reinvention
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoAmerica’s Juneteenth story shares much with Haiti’s struggle for autonomy, says Nadine Pinede, who...
Metro-east civil rights leaders discuss the importance of the Juneteenth holiday
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks ago“It’s a holiday for every person who believes the peculiar institution of slavery was wrong and that...
The Switch Up — The living legacy of Juneteenth
The Hill via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoFor more than 400 years, 15 million Africans were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, according to data from the United Nations. By 1860, when...
What to know about Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoDespite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoJune 19 (or Juneteenth) is considered Black Independence Day by many in the United States, as it was the day that many enslaved people in Texas were...