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A Dallas-based food blogger curated the list of recipes for her second Juneteenth Virtual Cookout.
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June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Fiesta is upon us, and if you’re still trying to get your footing on this year’s gatherings, here’s what you need to know. First off, Fiesta’s starting later than it ever has.
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Though celebrated by San Antonians in the past, Juneteenth is different this year: It coincides with Fiesta.
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Juneteenth is an annual celebration held on June 19 to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in America.
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Juneteenth celebrates the day slavery ended in Texas, June 19, 1865. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed studies the early American republic and the legacy of slavery.
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Rallies are happening from Atlanta to Los Angeles — including in Galveston, Texas, where the holiday was born. Amid a reckoning around race, this year's Juneteenth has an even more urgent meaning.
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Celebrating Juneteenth. We talk about the push to observe and understand the deeper story of the holiday.
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Friday, June 19 is Juneteenth. It’s a day of significance but it’s not a national holiday. In today’s climate of social unrest and calls for change in the…
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On this Juneteenth, NPR is marking the day in 1865 when Union forces arrived in Texas with the news that slavery had been abolished two years earlier with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.