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Happy Juneteenth!

By Roscoe Triply & Tobe Ogun We extend warm wishes to everyone on this Juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States of America. This freedom was the result of centuries of slave rebellions that eventually led to the American Civil War, which divided the nation into free and slaveholding states. The […]

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The Significance of Juneteenth

By Saumya V Juneteenth marks our country’s second Independence Day, when the last of the enslaved black population in Galveston, Texas were liberated by Union troops. This day has long been celebrated in the black community and was declared a national holiday in 2021. For over 2 centuries, millions of African Americans suffered under the

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