I don't pay attention to most holidays in other countries, but there is on that uplifts my spirit south of the border today. Today is June 19th, the...
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I don't pay attention to most holidays in other countries, but there is on that uplifts my spirit south of the border today. Today is June 19th, the federally-recognized holiday known as Juneteenth, which is recognized each year to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. It's date on the calendar is a distant echo of June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas. The proclamation itself was delivered on September 22, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln, but it's enforcement would wait in the "lone star" state until the war was over, a day that Lincoln himself...
I don't pay attention to most holidays in other countries, but there is on that uplifts my spirit south of the border today. Today is June 19th, the...
Before Juneteenth fades away in the rearview mirror, as yet another Republican president recklessly drives us toward yet another unwinnable war in the...
Before Juneteenth fades away in the rearview mirror, as yet another Republican president recklessly drives us toward yet another unwinnable war in the...
ICE arrest 11 Iranian immigrants after US strikes on nuclear sites Federal agents have arrested 11 Iranians across the U.S., Homeland Security...
ICE arrest 11 Iranian immigrants after US strikes on nuclear sites Federal agents have arrested 11 Iranians across the U.S., Homeland Security...
by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 46th president of the United States: 2021—2025 The people of Galveston, Texas, have been commemorating Juneteenth since the...
by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 46th president of the United States: 2021—2025 The people of Galveston, Texas, have been commemorating Juneteenth since the...
At San Francisco JCC, and other places across the U.S., crowds gathered to commemorate day that the last Black slaves were set free in 1866. 'I think...
At San Francisco JCC, and other places across the U.S., crowds gathered to commemorate day that the last Black slaves were set free in 1866. 'I think...
Donald Trump honoured Juneteenth in each of his first four years as US president, before it became a federal holiday, but has ignored the date this...