Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, introduced the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is offering free rides all day, system-wide, for Juneteenth. Juneteenth is the oldest known annual holiday marking the end of ...

Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., is this week.Observed annually on June 19, expect celebrations, festivals and closed Indiana state and federal government ...

(RNS) — On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally got news of their liberation — two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery. Ever since, ...

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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Save a life by donating blood this Juneteenth. Juneteenth is on Thursday, June 19, it’s the oldest celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery here in the U.S. The holiday ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.The ...

FACEBOOK PAGE. IT IS JUNETEENTH, A FEDERAL HOLIDAY RECOGNIZING THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S. AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE THAN WITH LOCAL FESTIVALS? BEFORE THE WEATHER GOT NASTY, WXII 12 SARAH ...

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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) will offer free rides all day, system-wide, for Juneteenth. Juneteenth is the oldest known annual holiday marking the end of ...

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, spoke at a Juneteenth celebration in Montgomery, Alabama, emphasizing the ongoing struggle for racial equality. Montgomery held multiple ...

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