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KINGS HIGHWAY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 2312 Fluker St., will celebrate the third anniversary honoring the pastor and wife, the Rev. Anthony J. Howard and Julia Howard, at 3 p.m. Sunday. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Robert Handley, pastor of Mt. Harmony Baptist Church. The theme will be "God Called Him At A Perfect Time To His Ministry" (Romans: 10:15.) Everyone is invited to join in this celebration. ....
Celebrations across the state mark Juneteenth, proclaimed a federal holiday in 2021 and marking the date June 19, 1865 that Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved people in that state were officially free. ....
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