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Homes of people all across america. and i know, you know, i sit here every night and i talk to you about these issues. about the insurrection, about racism, whatever, and sometimes i feel like im preaching. but if i dont say it, who will? and im not saying it just because i want to say it or im making things up. this is the truth about america. this is part of our history. so, im going to keep saying it, as long as i have this platform. and thats going to be for a while. i am a completely emanci...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ . president biden signing into law a bill making juneteenth a national holiday. even a small georgia town where the kkk was founded will be celebrating juneteenth this year. cnns martin savidge has the story. ♪ >> reporter: 80-year-old gloria brown remembers when hundreds of

Were enslaved and that they were beaten, they were sold, they werent able to accrue wealth. and they werent able to go to school. they werent able to go vote. you think that makes them feel good? so, the folks on the other side, stoop making it about you. and be curious, instead of judgmental. thats all. >> right. and look, conservatives say they are all about the principles that reformation is about. dont you want your kids given an avenue to dignity? and for them to see what abolitionists were...

Fourth of july. and you actually think the two holidays complement each other. explain that. >> they do comp -- they complement one another. i dont know who they are but i know i have no intention. nobody i know has any intention of replacing the fourth of july. we celebrated juneteenth and the fourth of july, when i was growing up. the interesting thing about it, the order that gordon granger issued, general order number three, talks about the end of slavery. but then, he says that the former-e...

Psalm tells us. weapon weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. juneteenth marks, both, the long, hard night of slavery, of subjugation, and a promise to come. this is a day of -- in my view -- profound weight and profound power. a day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll, that slavery took on the country, and continues to take. what ive long called americas original sin. >> also, momentous. vice president kamala harris, the first-black american to hold th...

Liberation day. emancipation day. and today, a national holiday. we are gathered here in a house built by enslaved people. we are footsteps away from where president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. >> healing the stains of racism is a very slow process in america. juneteenth marks a day in 1865. but president lincoln, actually, issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863. americans in parts of the south, held in bondage for two years after they were freed from enslavement....

Whew! so, tonight... ill be eating the gyro quesadilla from...al quick stop...in... hyde park. (doorbell) excellent. and, tonight... ill be eating the chicken pot pie from...founding farmers...in... foggy bottom. (doorbell) (giggle) oh, theyre excellent. i had so many beignets i thought i was going to hurl. do ya think they bought it? oh yeah. president biden signing a bill to establish june neteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states. lets discuss the sign...

Got to be a boogieman so now critical-race theory is the new boogieman. dont fall for the okeydoke. its so transparent, but people do fall for it, as we know. since there was an insurrection on capitol hill from people who were coopted by the big lie. and so, now, critical-race theory is the big lie, right? but tonight, there is exciting news about america. okay? lets -- lets -- the good news. and a nation coming to grips with its past and the horrors of slavery, juneteenth is now a national hol...

Reply SOS Childrens Villages Illinois, a non-profit, child-welfare agency that serves at-risk youth and children in foster care, announces its Board of Directors, in a unanimous decision, voted to recognize Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, as a paid organization holiday beginning this June 2021. As SOS Illinois honors Black History with a series of activities and events beginning this month that will extend throughout the year, this forward-looking move by the Board reaffirms the organizatio...